{"title":"If Data is Used in the Forest and No-one is Around to Hear it, Did it Happen? A Citation Count Investigation","authors":"S. Borda","doi":"10.2218/ijdc.v17i1.830","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this article I describe the process and results of tracking a citation from a data repository through the article publication process and trying to add a citation event to one of our DOIs. I also discuss some other confusing aspects related to citation counts as indicated in various systems, including reference managers, the publisher’s perspective, aggregators, and DOI minters. I discovered numerous problems with citations. Addressing these problems is important as citations can be key to determining both the original use and reuse of a dataset, especially for repositories that do not track usage by requiring people to login or provide an email to download a dataset. The lack of transparency in some data citation systems and processes obscures how and where data is being used. ","PeriodicalId":87279,"journal":{"name":"International journal of digital curation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International journal of digital curation","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v17i1.830","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this article I describe the process and results of tracking a citation from a data repository through the article publication process and trying to add a citation event to one of our DOIs. I also discuss some other confusing aspects related to citation counts as indicated in various systems, including reference managers, the publisher’s perspective, aggregators, and DOI minters. I discovered numerous problems with citations. Addressing these problems is important as citations can be key to determining both the original use and reuse of a dataset, especially for repositories that do not track usage by requiring people to login or provide an email to download a dataset. The lack of transparency in some data citation systems and processes obscures how and where data is being used.