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Topic: top 25 cited datasets

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 26 2024 at 17:00):

@Kelly Stathis just shared with me (in #community > DataCite Usage Tracker ) that you can easily get a list of the 25 most cited datasets in your installation of Dataverse through the DataCite API.

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 26 2024 at 17:01):

Here's an example for Harvard Dataverse:

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

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 26 2024 at 17:37):

I just spread the word about this: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Q2PbdEaZjaA/m/vWSiGBtaBQAJ

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 26 2024 at 17:38):

As I wrote in that post, I'm a bit confused about how to get the client-id. It would be nice if I could see it at https://commons.datacite.org/repositories/x3oc4vr for Harvard Dataverse, for example.

Kelly Stathis (Feb 01 2024 at 22:58):

Hi @Philip Durbin thanks for sharing this!

To find the client-id from a Commons repository page, if you click "Find Related Works" on https://commons.datacite.org/repositories/x3oc4vr it leads to this Works search result page: https://commons.datacite.org/doi.org?query=client.uid:gdcc.harvard-dv where you can see the client-id in the URL as "client.uid". I've shared with the team that it could be helpful to expose this in the interface as well.

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Feb 02 2024 at 14:13):

@Kelly Stathis thanks!

I spot-checked a few Dataverse installations from our list of 111 and "find related works" is absent in many cases:

Odum Institute Archive Dataverse: https://commons.datacite.org/repositories/3zncw48
Texas Data Repository: https://commons.datacite.org/repositories/6eyc4vv
UCLA Social Science Data Archive Dataverse: https://commons.datacite.org/repositories/x3ocr5d

Do you know why this is? I do see "find related works" for these:

Harvard Dataverse: https://commons.datacite.org/repositories/x3oc4vr
Syracuse University Qualitative Data Repository: https://commons.datacite.org/repositories/q98c6ry
Göttingen Research Online: https://commons.datacite.org/repositories/wqjc2nw

It's a great trick when it works!

If it helps, in that list we also track the DOI authority. Maybe we can look up the client-id that way?

Gwenaël Doux (Feb 02 2024 at 14:39):

In our case (Cirad), "find related works" is absent on our repository page, but we can find it within our organization. My guess is that our client ID is linked to our organization rather than directly to our repository. I can retrieve citations from the dataset using your curl command example; it's just mixed up with other information related to our organization.

Kelly Stathis (Feb 05 2024 at 21:06):

Hi @Philip Durbin, there are a few different things going on here:

The repository page for Odum Institute Archive Dataverse https://commons.datacite.org/repositories/3zncw48 is coming from this re3data record: http://doi.org/10.17616/R31NJCHT.
The DataCite repository account for Odum Institute Dataverse has client-id GDCC.ODUM-DV. In their Fabrica settings, the repository is linked to the re3data record https://doi.org/10.17616/R3RP41, for UNC Dataverse. This has a different page in Commons: https://commons.datacite.org/repositories/vl6ce78 on which you'll see the Find Related Works link.

For Texas Data Repository, the DataCite repository account (TDL.TDL) doesn't have a re3data record specified. In Commons this is the page: https://commons.datacite.org/repositories/9z2cveo which is not matched to anything in re3data. To resolve this, the repository can add the corresponding re3data identifier in the Fabrica settings.

The UCLA Social Science Data Archive is a different situation. This appears to be using one prefix (10.25346) underneath the CDL.UCLA repository account, which has a total of 17 prefixes for different systems. I know CDL was investigating splitting these out into separate DataCite repository accounts—once that is complete, they could associate the specific repository account (say "CDL.UCLA-DV" or whatever the new client-id is) with the re3data identifier. Until then, all the UCLA DOIs show up here: https://commons.datacite.org/repositories/zr3cr9, which corresponds to the entire CDL.UCLA DataCite repository account.

To summarize how this works in general:

Each DataCite repository account has a corresponding page in DataCite Commons, which you can find by searching the repository name.
All re3data repository records that allow upload (open or restricted) have a corresponding page in DataCite Commons (see https://support.datacite.org/docs/repository-finder#faq).
If the DataCite repository account has included the re3data identifier, we'll match that to the re3data record in Commons to avoid duplication.
Otherwise, if the re3data identifier hasn't been specified, you'll see both the DataCite repository account record and the re3data repository record in Commons - and only the page matching the DataCite repository account will have "Find Related Works".

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Feb 05 2024 at 21:08):

Holy moly, this is getting complicated! Thanks for the writeup, @Kelly Stathis !

Kelly Stathis (Feb 05 2024 at 21:10):

@Gwenaël Doux For Cirad, you can update your settings here: https://doi.datacite.org/repositories/inist.cirad/settings to add the "re3data Record" - search for "CIRAD Dataverse". This should merge your current page in Commons (https://commons.datacite.org/repositories/zr3c27) with the one derived from the re3data record (https://commons.datacite.org/repositories/or2c783). Let me know how this goes!

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Feb 05 2024 at 21:11):

What about the DOI authority? We track it in our spreadsheet of Dataverse installations. If I tell you 10.18419 can you (or some API) tell me the client-id?

Kelly Stathis (Feb 05 2024 at 21:44):

Yes! https://api.datacite.org/prefixes/10.18419

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Feb 05 2024 at 21:52):

tib.ubs in that case! Perfect! Thanks!

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Mar 01 2024 at 17:26):

Thanks again. I finally got around to explaining this at https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Q2PbdEaZjaA/m/ogomK2RSAAAJ

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