Dr. Mark Hahnel1
1Digital Science, United Kingdom
Biography:
Mark Hahnel is the VP Open Research at Digital Science. He is the founder of Figshare, which he created whilst completing his PhD in stem cell biology at Imperial College London. Figshare currently provides research data infrastructure for institutions, publishers and funders globally. He is passionate about open science and the potential it has to revolutionise the research community. Mark sits on the board of DataCite and the advisory board for Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). He was on the judging panel for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Wellcome Trust Open Science prize and acted as an advisor for the Springer Nature master classes.
Abstract:
One of the pillars of Open Science is the publication of research data. Firstly, open research data supports the reproducibility and scrutiny of research. Secondly, re-use of the data by others can make research more efficient.
We are trying to measure the adoption of these ideas in the scientific community by counting datasets and their citations in publications using Dimensions data on Google BigQuery (GBQ).
We show that the number of cited datasets and citing publications has increased massively but yet remains a very small subset of the registered datasets. We analyse the numbers by repository and subject and raise a number of questions around citation policy as well as future avenues of research.