Tag: Data Citation Corpus
On the ascent and with the summit in sight – Reflections on three years at Make Data Count
Date: May 11, 2026
DOI: 10.60804/CQ98-3H62 By Iratxe Puebla Three years ago, I took on the rewarding challenge of leading Make Data Count‘s work to build the tools, practices, and community needed to drive recognition for data as a primary research output. As I prepare to transition out of the role as Director of...
Working together to advance data evaluation: A look back at 2025
Date: December 9, 2025
DOI: 10.60804/zae0-cy06 What if we could measure the reach and impact of open data? This question remains central to Make Data Count and has shaped our 2025 initiatives. Over the past year, we have worked on expanding the data-usage information available to the community and we championed practical ways to...
ICPSR and Make Data Count collaborate to elevate the impact of data in the social sciences
Date: September 18, 2025
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
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...
Opening Up Translational Science Data Impact Through the Data Citation Corpus
Date: May 13, 2025
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)...
Applying nuance to our understanding of data metrics for evaluation
Date: March 5, 2025
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...
Perspectives on data evaluation and assessment
Date: February 14, 2025
DOI: 10.60804/6msz-1759 Views from Peter Cerda, Data Curation Specialist Peter Cerda is a Data Curation Specialist for Workflows and Big Data with the library at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He helps students and faculty deposit large, complex datasets into Deep Blue Data Repository; and helps researchers think about...
Advancing data metrics in 2025!
Date: January 16, 2025
DOI 10.60804/1nhk-qd72 We have many great activities planned for the coming year, collaborating with individuals and organizations that share our drive to advance responsible data metrics and data evaluation. Here is a preview of what we’ll be doing in 2025: 1. Work even more closely with institutions Universities play a...
Community perspectives on the Data Citation Corpus
Date: November 26, 2024
https://doi.org/10.60804/fkfy-1162 Make Data Count is a community hub for the development of metrics that can help us understand how data is used in research and policy activities. Several Make Data Count community members have given us their insights on the Data Citation Corpus, our project to build a central open...
Analyzing the Data Citation Corpus on Redivis
Date: November 14, 2024
DOI 10.60804/1516-e177 Blog post by Ian Mathews, CEO at Redivis, Zach Chandler, Director of Open Scholarship Strategy at Stanford University, Erin DeLaney, Head of Design at Redivis Analyze data citations for any repository by forking this analytical workflow on Redivis! At Redivis, we believe that data-driven research should be accessible, reproducible, and as...
The Data Citation Corpus in practice: Perspectives from a funder and an institution
Date: September 26, 2024
DOI 10.60804/6a1z-rr79 At the recent Make Data Count Summit 2024, we had the opportunity to explore the insights that the Data Citation Corpus provides for institutions and funders. A large-scale open aggregate of data citations, the Data Citation Corpus currently stores 5 million citations collected via persistent identifier metadata and...
‘I would like to better identify citations for data’: Community feedback and use cases for the first release of the Data Citation Corpus
Date: March 8, 2024
DOI: 10.60804/QNXH-9H83 Kicking off the year, we had the pleasure of announcing the first release of the Data Citation Corpus. In response to the multiple expressions of interest in learning more about the project and in using the data file for the corpus, we held a webinar dedicated to the...