The Role of Abstract and Citation Databases in Supporting Data Repositories

DataCite Workshop: Möglichkeiten und neue Lösungen im Forschungsdatenmanagement Köln - 12/12/2012

Michael Habib, MSLSProduct Manager, Scopushabib@elsevier.com

Broadest source for research answers

18,819Peer reviewed journals

405Trade journals

332Book series

A rich and extended coverage including

19,804 active titles

248Conf. series

2 million new records are added each year via daily updatesTotal average processing time: 5 days

Breadth of coverage across subject areas

More than 19,500 titles in Scopus, titles can be in more than one subject area

Health Sciences 6,300

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• Nursing

• Dentistry

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Social Sciences 6,350

• Psychology

• Economics

• Business

• A&H

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Life Sciences 4,050

• Neuroscience

• Pharmacology

• Biology

• etc.,

Physical Sciences 6,600

• Chemistry

• Physics

• Engineering

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Broader coverage than nearest peer

Scopus (Total: 19,809)

Web of Science(Total: 12,311)

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Scopus added value

Broadest coverage of quality global content including Asia and emerging countries

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Elsevier constitutes approximately 15% of titles in Scopus

More expansive coverage does not meanlower standards

Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB)

Scopus selection criteria

Journalpolicy

• Convincing editorial concept/policy• Level of peer-review• Diversity in geographic distribution of editors• Diversity in geographic distribution of authors

Quality ofcontent

• Academic contribution to the field• Clarity of abstracts• Quality and conformity with stated aims & scope• Readability of articles

Journal standing

• Citedness of journal articles in Scopus• Editor standing

Regularity • No delay in publication schedule

Online availability

• Content available online• English-language journal home page• Quality of home page

Minimum criteria

• Peer-review

• English abstracts

• Regular publication

• References in Roman script

• Publication ethics statement

Titles reviewed(n=2,279, January 2011 – 15 May 2012)

2,279 titles reviewed of which 41% accepted

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(Researchers, N = 3824 ; study by Publishing Research Consortium, 2010)

High importance but noteasily accessible

– establish easier access to research data on the Internet

– increase acceptance of research data as legitimate, citable contributions to the scholarly record

– support data archiving that will permit results to be verified and re-purposed for future study.

From: http://datacite.org/whatisdatacite emphasis my own

What is DataCite?

Pro’s• Coupling of data and article• Peer review• Preservation (byte-wise)• Citation mechanism

Con’s• Limited data type support• Compatibility (format support)• Limited capacity• Data not centrally stored

Supplementary Material

• Supplementary material is not a perfect solution• Many poor solutions in use: data on PCs, university websites, personal

homepages, ...• Data repositories: the community’s answer?

– Scientists prefer independent data repositories above publishers– Domain-specific coordination– Centralized information “hubs”

• “Raw data should be freelyaccessible to researchers” “... believe that, as a general principle,

data sets, raw data outputs of research, and sets or subsets of that data should wherever possible be made freely accessible to other scholars ...”(Statement from STM & ALPSP, June 2006)

Connecting with Data Repositories

Database Subject Type of Linking

CCDC Crystallography Article-level

PANGAEA Earth Sciences Article-level*

EMBL Molecular Interactions

Chemistry Entity, tagging

Molecular INTeraction DB Chemistry Entity, tagging

Genbank Nucleotides Entity, tagging

UniProt Proteins Entity, tagging

Protein Data Bank Proteins Entity, tagging

ClinicalTrials Medicine Entity, tagging

TAIR (Arabidopsis) Model organism Entity, tagging

Mendelian Inheritance in Men

Genetics, inheritance Entity, tagging

*: with Application

ScienceDirect Examples

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0377-8398(86)90033-2

PANGAEA Supplementary Data

– establish easier access to research data on the Internet

– increase acceptance of research data as legitimate, citable contributions to the scholarly record

– support data archiving that will permit results to be verified and re-purposed for future study.

From: http://datacite.org/whatisdatacite emphasis my own

What is DataCite?

ScopusExample

(Researchers, N = 3824 ; study by Publishing Research Consortium, 2010)

High importance but noteasily accessible

1.Pilot with specific community of authors, publishers, and data repositories, to try and change behaviours (in concept phase)

2.Track, count, and analyze citations to Documents as proof of Data impact (research needs to be done)

3.Establish links from Scopus Document Records to related Data sets to improve discovery (PANGAEA first step, looking to expand)

4.Ingest and index Data Repository (DataCite) records and enable searching from Scopus (the future)

5.Track Citations from Documents to Data sets (the more distant future)

Scopus priorities moving forward

Michael Habib, MSLSProduct Manager, Scopushabib@elsevier.comhttp://twitter.com/habibhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-8860-7565

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