number of citations working?

[Data CUHK]

Hi everyone,

I'm not sure if your dataverse is showing the number of citations for datasets in the repository. We have that for our datasets, but the number of citation counts is always 0 for all datasets.. I wonder what the counting mechanism behind the scenes are and if the metrics is actually working. Or it could be that our datasets haven't been cited at all. 

Thanks!

Best regards,

Qinqin

[Philip Durbin]

Hi Qinqin,

Hmm, can you please verify your citations outside of Dataverse, by querying the DataCite API directly, using the technique described in the "top 25 cited datasets in your Dataverse installation" thread? Please see https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Q2PbdEaZjaA/m/vWSiGBtaBQAJ

Thanks!

Phil

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[Julian Gautier]

Hi Qinqin,

The counting mechanism is described at https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/admin/make-data-count.html. That Make Data Count project generates the views, downloads, and citations counts, and Dataverse gets and displays those metrics on some regular basis.

On dataset pages on the CUHK Research Data Repository at https://researchdata.cuhk.edu.hk, I see view and download counts, so I'm assuming the repository is getting these Make Data Count metrics.

Whether or not DataCite records citations for datasets depends on how others are citing them and how different systems are describing those "citations" in the metadata they send to DataCite. It's definitely not perfect but groups are working on different ways of detecting citations, to improve citation counts.

Some folks have written about datasets or other research objects that they knew were "cited" in other published research objects, but DataCite wasn't aware of it, so it didn't appear in the Make Data Count database. So they tried to work out why that was, sometimes tracing the problem back to how the system, like another repository, was or wasn't sending that citation metadata to DataCite, or differences among research disciplines about what "cited" means.

Do you know that datasets in CUHK Research Data Repository have been cited? It might be helpful to look into cases like that.

All best,

Julian

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[Philip Durbin]

From https://api.datacite.org/prefixes/10.48668 I can tell that your client id is "wklx.uftoeh".

Let's run the following:

curl 'https://api.datacite.org/dois/?client-id=wklx.uftoeh&sort=-citation-count' | jq '.data[].attributes | "\(.citationCount) \(.url)"' -r

It claims that you have 5 datasets with 1 citation each:

1 https://researchdata.cuhk.edu.hk/citation?persistentId=doi:10.48668/E6JEKD
1 https://researchdata.cuhk.edu.hk/citation?persistentId=doi:10.48668/SK0HF6
1 https://researchdata.cuhk.edu.hk/citation?persistentId=doi:10.48668/UVVXJH
1 https://researchdata.cuhk.edu.hk/citation?persistentId=doi:10.48668/0NPBOK
1 https://researchdata.cuhk.edu.hk/citation?persistentId=doi:10.48668/9AKTCT

However, I just visited each link above all 5 show 0 citations. I'm not sure why. Is Make Data Count set up properly? Or is my curl command wrong? Hmm.

Here's an example of a dataset in Dataverse that has 2 citations: https://data.qdr.syr.edu/citation?persistentId=doi:10.5064/F6NEGI7I

Exciting, right? This is what it's all about! Citing data!

I hope this helps!

Phil

[Gautier, Julian]

I think your curl command is right, Phil. In the JSON at https://api.datacite.org/dois/10.48668/E6JEKD, I see that 1 citation count.

But those viewCounts and downloadCounts are very different than what's on the repository's dataset page at https://researchdata.cuhk.edu.hk/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.48668/E6JEKD, so I'm a bit confused, now 😅

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[James Myers]

FWIW: The MDC processes to count views/downloads is ~separate from the process to get Citations from MDC, so just seeing MDC downloads doesn’t mean everything is configured. You need to periodically run the updateCitationsForDataset API (i.e. via the counter_weekly.sh script) to see the citations in Dataverse: see https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/admin/make-data-count.html#configuring-your-dataverse-installation-for-make-data-count-citations.

 

--Jim

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[Data CUHK]

Hi Phil, Julian and Jim,

Thank you so much for your insights! This is really helpful.

I will look into our  updateCitationsForDataset API and see if there is anything that needs to be fixed.. 

Thanks again!

Qinqin