Category: Events

DOI: 10.60804/5Y5X-M612 Make Data Count will be part of a pre-conference event focused on advancing research assessment reform across the Asia-Pacific region. The framing is ambitious but necessary: how do we move toward systems that better reflect the full range of scholarly contributions, while avoiding the unintended consequences that have...

DOI: 10.60804/2PEK-XM77 By John Chodacki and Kristi Holmes For all the progress around open science, one thing remains stubbornly unresolved: research data is still rarely treated as a first-class scholarly output for tracking and reporting. This limits our ability to reward data contributions in tenure and promotion processes, and it...

Blog post by Iratxe Puebla and Maria Alejandra Tejada Gómez. DOI: 10.60804/zb5q-qy55 The Make Data Count Summit last September brought together researchers, infrastructure providers and representatives across institutions, funding and policy areas to discuss data metrics and the responsible evaluation of data usage. Policy makers and funding agencies play a...

Make Data Count is pleased to announce the Make Data Count Summit 2024, a two-day meeting dedicated to responsible data metrics and the evaluation of open data usage and impact.

First-of-its-kind aggregation brings together millions of data citations to advance understanding of data usage

This post has been cross-posted on the DataCite blog. https://doi.org/10.5438/fz2h-4092 A critical piece of open data infrastructure that has received insufficient attention is the evaluation of data usage. We still lack a clear understanding and a body of evidence on how data are being accessed, utilized, and incorporated into research...