Edwin A. Henneken, Alberto Accomazzi
Is there a difference in citation rates between articles that were published
with links to data and articles that were not? Besides being interesting from a
purely academic point of view, this question is also highly relevant for the
process of furthering science. Data sharing not only helps the process of
verification of claims, but also the discovery of new findings in archival
data. However, linking to data still is a far cry away from being a "practice",
especially where it comes to authors providing these links during the writing
and submission process. You need to have both a willingness and a publication
mechanism in order to create such a practice. Showing that articles with links
to data get higher citation rates might increase the willingness of scientists
to take the extra steps of linking data sources to their publications. In this
presentation we will show this is indeed the case: articles with links to data
result in higher citation rates than articles without such links. The ADS is
funded by NASA Grant NNX09AB39G.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3618
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