10.5061/DRYAD.8Q931
Mayo, Christine
University of North Carolina
Vision, Todd J.
University of North Carolina
Hull, Elizabeth A.
Data from: The location of the citation: changing practices in how
publications cite original data in the Dryad Digital Repository
Dryad
dataset
2016
Surveys
Scientific publication
Scholarly communication
Data management
Scholarly publishing
Data citation
2016-10-31T01:25:16Z
2016-10-31T01:25:16Z
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https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v11i1.400
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While stakeholders in scholarly communication generally agree on the
importance of data citation, there is not consensus on where those
citations should be placed within the publication – particularly when the
publication is citing original data. Recently, CrossRef and the Digital
Curation Center (DCC) have recommended as a best practice that original
data citations appear in the works cited sections of the article. In some
fields, such as the life sciences, this contrasts with the common practice
of only listing data identifier(s) within the article body
(intratextually). We inquired whether data citation practice has been
changing in light of the guidance from CrossRef and the DCC. We examined
data citation practices from 2011 to 2014 in a corpus of 1,125 articles
associated with original data in the Dryad Digital Repository. The
percentage of articles that include no reference to the original data has
declined each year, from 31% in 2011 to 15% in 2014. The percentage of
articles that include data identifiers intratextually has grown from 69%
to 83%, while the percentage that cite data in the works cited section has
grown from 5% to 8%. If the proportions continue to grow at the current
rate of 19-20% annually, the proportion of articles with data citations in
the works cited section will not exceed 90% until 2030.
Citation location resultsDetails of the articles analyzed to determine the
location of original data identifiers within the article. Only includes
results for articles that were Open Access and full-text indexed in
EPMC.citation_locations.txtCitation location scriptThis Python script
imports lists of Dryad metadata and uses it to search Europe PMC and to
locate and classify data references appearing in the
literature.citation_locations.py