Hardy,

DataCite is also working with Crossref to share reference metadata. This will allow you to get citations of your DOIs from the DataCite APIs. It’s still a work in progress, but you can find out more at https://www.datacite.org/eventdata.html. Again, that will not specifically exclude self references. Perhaps if ORCID iDs are included in your DataCite metadata and are also available in the crossref metadata (that would be dependant on the publisher) that would be a useful way to find and exclude them.

Of course DataCite event data will only pick up mentions in the references and not in the acknowledgements, so other tools will still be useful to get the wider picture!

Thanks, Rachael.

Thanks David! That makes searching a bit quicker!

The problem with this is that they seem to be all the papers that are written using our Lancaster DOIs (so by Lancaster authors who put the DOI in their Acknowledgments or References) and not by other papers citing our DOIs.

But there is no quick way of establishing that I suppose.

The same I think applies to the Scopus hits (Thanks Stephen!). They are “self-referencing” citations by the original authors. I suspect Scopus picks them up if they are in the Reference section (and not from Acknowledgments or Data Availability Statements).

Hardy

Hi Hardy

If you wanted to search Google Scholar for citations of material in your data repository by DOI, you could do it like this:

https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=dx.doi.org%2F10.17635%2Flancaster%2Fresearchdata%2F&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5

(to search anything that looks like an url you need to remove the protocol string from the front)

The usual caveats apply to such searches, but I’m seeing about 48 papers that include text containing the string dx.doi.org/10.17635/lancaster/researchdata/

David

Dear all,

Here at Lancaster University, we have currently 145 datasets in our Research Directory. 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.

·         We wonder if any of you have done a similar exercise?

·         If so, could you let us know what method you used to find out about the citations?

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.

Thanks

Hardy

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