At 13:14 on 24 Apr 2017, Schwamm, Hardy said:
> Dear all,
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> Here at Lancaster University, we have currently 145 datasets in our Research Directory<http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/datasets/search.html>. A few months ago we tried to find out if any of our datasets were being cited by others. We did this manually by searching for the DOI in Google Scholar (the method was recommended by Rachel from the BL). At the time, none of our datasets seemed to get any citations.
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> * We wonder if any of you have done a similar exercise?
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> * If so, could you let us know what method you used to find out about the citations?
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> We are interested in data citations in the context of "carrots" for research data sharing. While we know of studies that prove a citation advantage of papers where the underlying data is available we are unsure about actual citations for datasets.
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Apologies for the late reply but you might be interested in our study
of how people cite datasets from our (computer science) research data
archive.
<http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january15/henderson/01henderson.html>
In short not everyone uses a DOI or other identifier to cite a
dataset; some people cite the paper that created a dataset, other
people use unclear identifiers, and some people just cite the data
archive itself. So tracking citations accurately is difficult. We use
a mix of Google Scholar/Scopus/etc search alerts for all of the
various ways that people might cite our datasets, but we are
completely aware that this is far from complete. We also ask people to
tell us when they use one of our datasets, but in the twelve years
that we have been sharing data, the number of people that have done so
is still in the single digits!
Cheers,
Tristan
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