IASSIST 2011 presentation: "Problems with our Data Citation Solution" by Heather Piwowar, June 1 2011 #iassist Note that these problems are solvable! Many are currently being solved... tool fixes are underway, etc. This presentation is to raise awareness of current state and challenges ahead.

1. Problems with
our data citation
solutions
Heather
Piwowar
DataONE
postdoc
with
NESCent
and
Dryad
@researchremix
IASSIST2011
#iassist

2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/boitabulle/3668162701/

3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunrise/35819369/

4. No consistent practice

6. We reviewed 500 articles in six major evolution and ecology
journals for evidence of data citation:
Sarah Judson, Data citation in the wild IDCC 2010 poster.

7. We reviewed 500 articles in six major evolution and ecology
journals for evidence of data citation:
Sarah Judson, Data citation in the wild IDCC 2010 poster.

8. Few policies request
or require data
citation

9. We reviewed policies of various stakeholders within the
environmental sciences, looking for evidence of data citation
policies and attribution suggestions.
Policies in our sample that mention data citation:
Journal policies rarely included useful best practices.
Nicholas Weber, Data citation in the wild IDCC 2010 poster.
Policy links can be found at: http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Valerie_Enriquez/Notebook/DataONE_Web_resources

10. A best-practice
solution!

13. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nilsrinaldi/5157809483/

14. #1
Lack of tool support
for our best practice

21. Research Remix blog: http://bit.ly/aOwLoJ
“Tracking Dataset Citations Using Common Citation Tracking Tools Doesn’t Work”

22. Research Remix blog: http://bit.ly/aOwLoJ
“Tracking Dataset Citations Using Common Citation Tracking Tools Doesn’t Work”

23. #2
Our best practice doesn’t
scale to mega-reuse

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28. http://www.nature.com/nature/authors/gta/

30. #3
Adoption of best practices
erode incentives in the
short term

31. ~70%
in multivariate
analysis

32. #4
Data citations only matter
if they are valued

33. Please donʼt tweet or publicize this next bit...
Early results from an ongoing survey.
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34. Removed for public posting because
early results from ongoing survey
Do not publicize outside IASSIST conference

35. Removed for public posting because
early results from ongoing survey
Do not publicize outside IASSIST conference

36. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginable/325235488/

37. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/

38. http://www.flickr.com/photos/supersam5/216868485/

40. thank you
Dryad and DataONE colleagues, in particular:
Todd Vision
Nicholas Weber, Sarah Judson, Valerie Enriquez
The open science online community
and those who release their articles, datasets and
photos openly.