[ecoinfo] Citation norms for datasets

Thu Jul 14 09:12:37 PDT 2011

Kyle,

Are your students archiving these in repositories that will issue a doi for
the citation information?  (Merritt, Dryad if they correspond to already
published work, etc)?

Here's a few more refs that have argued for this, some quite extensively.

This whole piece is essentially an argument for data citation:
Mons, B., Haagen, H. van, Chichester, C., Hoen, P.-B. ’T, Dunnen, J. T.
den, Ommen, G. van, et al. (2011). The value of data. Nature genetics,
43(4), 281-3. Nature Publishing Group. doi: 10.1038/ng0411-281.

Birney, E., Hudson, T. J., Green, E. D., Gunter, C., Eddy, S., Rogers, J.,
et al. (2009). Prepublication data sharing. Nature, 461(7261), 168-70. doi:
10.1038/461168a.
"another would be to track the usage and citation of data sets using
electronic systems similar to those used for traditional publications"
.
who cite this in support:
Sharing Data from Large-scale Biological Research Projects: A System of
Tripartite Responsibility (Wellcome Trust, 2003); available at
www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/corporatesite/@policy_communications/documents/
web_document/wtd003207.pdf

Tenopir, C., Allard, S., Douglass, K., Aydinoglu, A. U., Wu, L., Read, E.,
et al. (2011). Data Sharing by Scientists: Practices and Perceptions. (C.
Neylon, Ed.)PLoS ONE, 6(6), e21101. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021101.
     "Providing a secure but flexible cyberinfrastructure while promulgating
best practices such as data citation and metadata reuse, will help build
confidence in data sharing"

Rod discusses data  citation quite a bit here:
Page, R. D. M. (2010). Enhanced display of scientific articles using
extended metadata. Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World
Wide Web, 8(2-3), 190-195. doi: 10.1016/j.websem.2010.03.004.

Constable, H., Guralnick, R., Wieczorek, J., Spencer, C., & Peterson, a T.
(2010). VertNet: a new model for biodiversity data sharing. PLoS biology,
8(2), e1000309. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000309.
"By ensuring that data remain curated at the source, and by showing the
importance of data sharing to promote data citation and usage, we have grown
past our original technology implementation and are ready to move into a
long-term production environment that departs from the original model."

These three make mention of data citation, mostly in reference to increased
citation rates of papers.
Moore, A. J., McPeek, M. a, Rausher, M. D., Rieseberg, L., & Whitlock, M.
C. (2010). The need for archiving data in evolutionary biology. Journal of
evolutionary biology, 23(4), 659-60. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.01937.x.

Whitlock, M. C., McPeek, M. a, Rausher, M. D., Rieseberg, L., & Moore, A. J.
(2010). Data archiving. The American naturalist, 175(2), 145-6. doi:
10.1086/650340.

Whitlock, M. C. (2010). Data archiving in ecology and evolution: best
practices. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1-5. Elsevier Ltd. doi:
10.1016/j.tree.2010.11.006.

Mark Parson's talk: http://ands.org.au/guides/data-citation-awareness.html

-Carl

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Cook, Robert B. <cookrb at ornl.gov> wrote:

> Kyle,
>
> At the ORNL DAAC we have been providing recommended citations for our
> published data sets since the early 2000s.  These citations are appearing in
> papers that use the data publication.  Citing data products gives the
> authors credit for the intellectual effort in generating the data set.
>
> Please refer to the attached note for additional information.
>
> When we publish these data products, I send a note to each author
> congratulating them on their publication and encouraging them to place the
> citation data pub on their cv.
>
> Many journals will allow data product citations to appear in the references
> section of papers.
>
> We are working with the Web of Knowledge to place these data pubs into
> their indexing service, so that authors can view both their publications and
> their data products.  Plus they can readily see who has used their data in
> subsequent publications.
>
> Good luck!
> Bob
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> ecoinfo-bounces at ecoinformatics.org] On Behalf Of Kyle Kwaiser
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> Subject: [ecoinfo] Citation norms for datasets
>
> Hello Colleagues,
>
> I am working with graduate students this summer to archive their work
> at our field station.  I want to tell them to cite their datasets on
> their CV's but I know this is not yet the norm.
>
> Any general thoughts on how close we are to including datasets on
> CV's?  Can you suggest recent papers that argue (decisively) for this
> practice?  Here are two relevant but slightly tangential examples:
>
> Reichman, O. J., M. B. Jones, and M. P. Schildhauer. 2011. "Challenges
> and Opportunities of Open Data in Ecology." Science 331 (6018)
> (February): 703-705. doi:10.1126/science.1197962.
>
> Vision, Todd J. 2010. "Open Data and the Social Contract of Scientific
> Publishing." BioScience 60 (5) (May): 330-331.
> doi:10.1525/bio.2010.60.5.2.
>
> Best,
>
> Kyle
>
>
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Carl Boettiger
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