Make Data Count: A Central Corpus for All Data Citations

Project Title

Funder

The Wellcome Trust (Award ID: 226453/Z/22/Z)

Duration and Start Date

36 mo., February 1, 2023

Partners

The project is a broad collaboration across the scholarly communication ecosystem, including DataCite, CZI Science, EMBL-EBI, and others.

Objectives

For data citation to become a priority across the research landscape, we need to facilitate ways to incorporate data metrics into institutional and funder processes related to the evaluation of research coverage and impact, as well as researcher assessment. To make this possible, the global corpus of data citations will deliver:

A central aggregate of all references to research data across articles, preprints, government documents, and other outputs, released as a community resource.
A dashboard to allow community stakeholders to visualize citations to datasets according to different dimensions e.g. field of research, affiliation, and others.

Contact

Iratxe Puebla

Make Data Count Director

Joined DataCite: January 2023
Based in: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Iratxe directs the Make Data Count initiative, which promotes the development of open data metrics to enable evaluation of data usage. Prior to this role, Iratxe worked at ASAPbio, where she led initiatives to promote the use of preprints and transparency in peer review. She also held editorial roles at different open-access journals and served as Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the journal PLOS ONE.

Favorite DataCite metadata property: “The RelatedIdentifier field in the metadata schema, I just love connections!”