Data Citation and DOIs
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Data citation is crucial for acknowledging creators, enhancing their careers, and encouraging data sharing, while being an important component in evaluating data collection impact. The document discusses the role of persistent identifiers, particularly Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), in providing stable references for datasets and the challenges of inconsistent citation practices across journals. It highlights the need for adopting data citation standards to improve scholarly infrastructure and measure the impact of data creation.
Data Citation and DOIs
- 1. Data Citation and DOIs George Alter University of Michigan
- 3. Why is data citation important? • Creators of data have a right to expect their work to be acknowledged • Citation will enhance the careers of data producers • Recognition encourages others to share data • Citations are an element in evaluating the impact of a data collection
- 4. NSF Biosketch f. Biographical Sketch(es) (c) Products A list of: (i) up to five products most closely related to the proposed project; and (ii) up to five other significant products, whether or not related to the proposed project. Acceptable products must be citable and accessible including but not limited to publications, data sets, software, patents, and copyrights… Each product must include full citation information including (where applicable and practicable) names of all authors, date of publication or release, title, title of enclosing work such as journal or book, volume, issue, pages, website and Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or other Persistent Identifier.
- 5. • Academic rewards are often tied to citations. • It is easy to count citations of publications. • Data re-use is very difficult to count.
- 6. The Problem: Inconsistent Placement of References Data-PASS letter to the American Sociological Association, August 8, 2010 Similar letters sent to American Economics Association, American Education Research Association, and American Political Science Association.
- 7. Persistent Identifiers • A long-lasting reference to a digital object • URLs point to locations, which are unstable • Persistent Identifiers provide a name and a locator • Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are widely used for publications • DOIs are resolved by Registration Agencies
- 8. DOIs are used to resolve rights and subscriptions
- 9. DataCite • DOI Registration Agency created for scientific data – Maintains the resolution infrastructure – Maintains a searchable database of metadata – Manages the identifiers over the long term – Establishes and shares best practice • Focused on improving the scholarly infrastructure around datasets and other non-textual information • Founded December 1st 2009 in London
- 10. When DOIs are used in citations, the citing articles can be recovered by search engines. This data set has been used in 330 publications, but only 15 used the DOI.
- 11. It is easy to get a citation and a DOI from a data repository. DOI
- 12. Where are we now? • Links between data and publications are not available, because journals do not cite data consistently. • Without consistent citation, aggregators (Thomson Reuters, Scopus, Google Scholar) cannot automate links • The impact of data creation (and data creators) is difficult to measure
- 13. Data citation standards, including DOIs, are an easy policy for journals to adopt.