Don Sizemore (Mar 22 2023 at 18:54): Don Sizemore (Mar 22 2023 at 18:54):for discussion on integrating the DataCite Usage Tracker (currently in beta)
Kelly Stathis (Mar 22 2023 at 19:43):@Don Sizemore thanks for posting this, glad to see interest from the Dataverse community! We are rolling out slowly with a small number of beta testers and gathering feedback on the service. From our call today, it sounds like the approach of embedding a Javascript snippet on landing/download pages might not immediately work for Dataverse installations, which is very helpful feedback for us to consider for future iterations :smile:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Mar 29 2023 at 15:37):@Kelly Stathis yes, that's my understanding. Together, we'll figure it out. :happy:
Someone just asked about MDC in #dataverse on Matrix. I pointed them to this thread. I figured we should also link to the new tracker: https://github.com/datacite/datacite-tracker
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 24 2024 at 14:26):In this Using the DataCite MDC Tracker with Dataverse, we (Jim, mostly) talk about how the usage tracker probably won't "just work" with Dataverse without modifications.
Gwenaël Doux (Jan 24 2024 at 14:47):Thank you for the sharing. From what I understand, the MDC beta tracker does not display citations? only views and downloads?
Will the current installation still be necessary? We're wondering whether to implement it now or wait until the new tracker is released.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 24 2024 at 14:53):Hmm. I'm pretty sure it displays citations. @Kelly Stathis would know for sure but I haven't talked to her lately! Hopefully she sees this. :grinning:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 24 2024 at 14:54):Also, there's a bit of new related chatter over at #community > Make Data Count
Gwenaël Doux (Jan 24 2024 at 15:08):Ok, it just that on the DataCite Usage Tracker (beta) documentation, only views and downloads are mentioned. I was wondering if citations were included since we did not request access to the beta :)
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 24 2024 at 15:12):Huh. I see what you mean. I would suggest opening an issue at https://github.com/datacite/datacite-tracker/issues and asking if citations are supported.
Kelly Stathis (Jan 25 2024 at 19:17):The Usage Tracker is a means of collecting views and downloads. DataCite then processes these events into a usage report. This is an alternative to repositories generating usage reports themselves via log processing, which can be complicated to implement.
Views, downloads, and citations are all displayed in DataCite Commons and made available via our APIs. There is also the Data Metrics Badge: https://support.datacite.org/docs/displaying-usage-and-citations-in-your-repository which similarly displays all three.
Citation metadata can come from a variety of sources, including DataCite and Crossref DOI metadata. We're also expanding the sources of citations through the work on the Open Global Data Citation Corpus (https://makedatacount.org/data-citation/). However, citations can't be derived from web usage (the same way that, for example, views can be derived from page hits), so collecting citation information is not part of the usage tracker. I hope that helps to clarify the scope of the service!
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 25 2024 at 19:37):Hi, @Kelly Stathis! Thanks and welcome back and happy new year!
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 25 2024 at 19:37):Makes sense to me. Are you all set, @Gwenaël Doux?
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 25 2024 at 19:39):@Kelly Stathis on a related note, at https://commons.datacite.org/repositories/x3oc4vr , the entry for Harvard Dataverse, it says 2578 citations. That's great! Can I easily see from the DataCite API or whatever, which DOI is most cited? Or even just a few DOIs that have any citations?
Gwenaël Doux (Jan 26 2024 at 09:05):Thanks for this detailed explanation, great :+1: I misunderstood data retrieval and display. When I reread the doc and the google docs document, I realized that I got the 2 mixed up.
Kelly Stathis (Jan 26 2024 at 16:44):@Philip Durbin Yes! Here's a REST API request that sorts by citation count (descending):
https://api.datacite.org/dois/?client-id=gdcc.harvard-dv&sort=-citation-count
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 26 2024 at 16:49):144 citations! Amazing! Thank you, Kelly!
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Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 26 2024 at 16:50):It's a little surprising that https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OHHUKH has the most (144) because it doesn't have any files. :thinking:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 26 2024 at 16:59):Maybe I'll start a new topic for this.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 26 2024 at 17:01):Over here: #community > top 25 cited datasets
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 26 2024 at 17:01):Thanks again, @Kelly Stathis ! This is great!
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