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Advancing research data tracking with the Open Science Monitoring Initiative

Date: September 23, 2025

Category: Blog Tags: Community

DOI: 10.60804/8v2k-cm37   The Open Science Monitoring Initiative promotes the open science monitoring principles and adoption of practices to understand the progress of open science. Make Data Count is an active participant in OSMI, through its Working Group focused on open science monitoring with scholarly content providers. We had a...


ICPSR and Make Data Count collaborate to elevate the impact of data in the social sciences

Date: September 18, 2025

Category: Blog Tags: Community, Data Citation Corpus

DOI 10.60804/80tg-6d89 With Elisabeth Shook  The Data Citation Corpus aggregates data citations from multiple sources, and one of our areas of interest is to expand its disciplinary coverage. Through a collaboration between Make Data Count and ICPSR (the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research), citations for social science datasets...


Advancing Responsible Research Assessment Through Data Evaluation

Date: August 26, 2025

Category: Blog Tags: Data Citation Corpus, data evaluation, research assessment

DOI: 10.60804/hcfm-jx07 This post has been cross-posted on the DORA blog. The majority of research activities involve creating, collecting, or using data. While datasets constitute the backbone of research activities, they are currently sidelined as part of research evaluation frameworks which predominantly focus on article publications. This is a missed...


The Data Citation Corpus now includes data citations from Europe PMC

Date: July 29, 2025

Category: Blog

DOI: 10.60804/drrx-4m69 The fourth release of the Data Citation Corpus incorporates data citations from Europe PMC and additions to affiliation metadata. Our latest release for the Data Citation Corpus is just out, including 5.2 million new data citations from Europe PMC, and additions to the affiliation metadata for some of...


Announcing Make Data Count’s Kaggle Competition

Date: June 11, 2025

Category: Blog

Post by Make Data Count advisors Daniella Lowenberg and Jennifer Lin DOI: 10.60804/asfb-f691 We are thrilled to announce the launch of our Kaggle competition “Make Data Count – Finding Data References”. Make Data Count (MDC) maintains an open corpus of data citations and this competition seeks state of the art...


Advancing recognition for FAIR and open data: NWO supports Make Data Count as essential infrastructure for open science

Date: May 27, 2025

Category: Blog

DOI: 10.60804/KKE3-6Q77 Marta Teperek is the Programme Leader for FAIR Data at Open Science NL. She is a researcher by training and obtained her PhD in epigenetics and developmental biology from the University of Cambridge.   Hans de Jonge is the Director of Open Science NL. He has worked at...


Opening Up Translational Science Data Impact Through the Data Citation Corpus

Date: May 13, 2025

Category: Blog Tags: Data Citation Corpus, translational science

Reese Richardson (Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University), Iratxe Puebla (Make Data Count), Jason Portenoy (DataCite), Karen Gutzman (Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine) and Kristi Holmes (Galter Health Sciences Library and Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)...


Leveraging data citations to respond to libraries’ data evaluation needs

Date: April 28, 2025

Category: Blog

DOI: 10.60804/yxna-f837 Libraries play an important role in driving adoption of open data, and they have an increasing focus on understanding dataset usage and impact. This information is key in order for institutions to gain information about the diverse research outputs contributed by their researchers, and to inform institutional strategy...


The journey of data: Meta-researcher perspectives on data use and metrics

Date: April 14, 2025

Category: Blog Tags: Community, Data citations, Metaresearch

DOI 10.60804/ZGJX-0K93 Over the last couple of months we have talked with meta-researchers about their work on data, and their perspectives on steps needed to better understand how datasets are used and inform responsible metrics for data. These conversations have highlighted a strong interest in understanding how data practices are...


Perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for large-scale analyses on data use and data citations

Date: April 3, 2025

Category: Blog

DOI 10.60804/82EM-7E16 Views from Kai Li, Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee Please describe your previous research project(s) that related to data use, and the main findings from that research. I was trained as a scientometrics researcher. One of my research interests is to understand how data...


Perspectives on the importance of best practices to incentivize data sharing and data recognition

Date: March 17, 2025

Category: Blog

DOI 10.60804/GAPH-5F57 Views from Mike Thelwall, Professor of Data Science Mike Thelwall, Professor of Data Science at the University of Sheffield, UK, has developed free software and methods for social media sentiment analysis and for systematically gathering and analyzing web and social web data.  Can you tell us a bit...


Applying nuance to our understanding of data metrics for evaluation

Date: March 5, 2025

Category: Blog Tags: Community, Data Citation Corpus, Data citations, Metaresearch

DOI 10.60804/ZFGH-FP13 Perspectives from Nicolás Robinson-García Nicolás Robinson-García works in bibliometrics and research evaluation. His current research focuses on research contributions and how those are distributed across teams and in different research fields – see this preprint for his latest research on contributions based on the CRediT taxonomy. Nicolás has...