Creating a Repository of Publication Citations Referencing EOSDIS Dataset DOIs
Tracking dataset citations in scientific publications provide multiple benefits: obtaining citation indices for quantitative evaluation of the dataset scientific impact, learning about dataset usage in applied sciences, credits to dataset creators, datasets co-citation relationships and many more.
Collecting of citations of datasets from publications is commonly done via search of citation databases that compile and make available citation-to-citation linkages.
The coverage of publications and citation linkages vary among these databases. In our study we demonstrate the results of the search of the largest citation databases such as Google Scholar, Web of Sciences, Scopus and Crossref for publications citations linked to the NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) dataset Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs).
We show that the citation coverage and linkages provided by these databases vary with each database producing a fraction of unique results.
The compiled repository of publication to dataset DOI linkages was used to demonstrate that the EOSDIS dataset DOI registry, DataCite, contains only a small fraction of these linkages, which can be significantly improved.
Our repository of publication to dataset DOI linkages can be used in future studies such as dataset co-citation and data usage in applied sciences.
As an example, we demonstrate our findings on co-referencing the datasets from various EOSDIS data archives in single papers, showing possible synergy of the datasets for the scientific studies.
