A Comparative Study on Characteristics of How Chinese Scientists Citing Software and Datasets in Different Publication Communities

  • Yang Bo ,
  • Wang Xue ,
  • Su Na
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  • 1. College of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095;
    2. Research Center for Correlation of Domain Knowledge, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095;
    3. Institutes of Science and Development, CAS, Beijing 100190

Received date: 2017-04-17

  Revised date: 2017-05-29

  Online published: 2017-07-20

Abstract

[Purpose/significance] Non-literature resources have been increasingly playing an important role in scientific research. As the two types of reprehensive of non-literature resources, scientific software and scientific data are the indispensable resources in data-enhanced research. [Method/process] In this study, the citation activities of scientific software and datasets mentioned in the articles from the International and Chinese Bioinformatics communities are summarized, and a correlation analytical method between scientific literature and scientific software/datasets is proposed to analyze citation behaviors across them. [Result/conclusion] The field of bioinformatics is selected as a testing example to investigate the trend and ability of applying new technology in bioinformatics research, based on which we can proof the hypothesis that Chinese authors prefer to submit their good research findings to international journals. Meanwhile, we can also find the significantly positive correlation between the quality of scientific literature and the quality of scientific software and datasets.

Cite this article

Yang Bo , Wang Xue , Su Na . A Comparative Study on Characteristics of How Chinese Scientists Citing Software and Datasets in Different Publication Communities[J]. Library and Information Service, 2017 , 61(14) : 109 -115 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2017.14.015

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