Problems with our data citation

solutionsHeather  Piwowar

DataONE  postdoc  with  NESCent  and  Dryad@researchremix  

IASSIST2011  #iassist

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No consistent practice

Sarah Judson, Data citation in the wild IDCC 2010 poster.

We reviewed 500 articles in six major evolution and ecology journals for evidence of data citation:

Sarah Judson, Data citation in the wild IDCC 2010 poster.

We reviewed 500 articles in six major evolution and ecology journals for evidence of data citation:

Few policies request or require data

citation

Nicholas Weber, Data citation in the wild IDCC 2010 poster.Policy links can be found at: http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Valerie_Enriquez/Notebook/DataONE_Web_resources

We reviewed policies of various stakeholders within the environmental sciences, looking for evidence of data citation policies and attribution suggestions.

Policies in our sample that mention data citation:

Journal policies rarely included useful best practices.

A best-practice solution!

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#1

Lack of tool support for our best practice

Research Remix blog: http://bit.ly/aOwLoJ“Tracking Dataset Citations Using Common Citation Tracking Tools Doesn’t Work”

Research Remix blog: http://bit.ly/aOwLoJ“Tracking Dataset Citations Using Common Citation Tracking Tools Doesn’t Work”

#2

Our best practice doesn’t scale to mega-reuse

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#3

Adoption of best practices erode incentives in the

short term

~70% in multivariate analysis

#4

Data citations only matter if they are valued

Please donʼt tweet or publicize this next bit...

Early results from an ongoing survey.

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Do not publicize outside IASSIST conference

Removed for public posting becauseearly results from ongoing survey

Do not publicize outside IASSIST conference

Removed for public posting becauseearly results from ongoing survey

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thank youDryad and DataONE colleagues, in particular:

Todd VisionNicholas Weber, Sarah Judson, Valerie Enriquez

The open science online community and those who release their articles, datasets and photos openly.