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DataCite

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World rank, all time
#34,422
of 34,923
Rank in Germany
#1,591
of 1,603
Research works
184
▲ 4% vs 2018-21
Citations
258
1.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.81×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
99%
world 40%
International
16%
world 18%
DataCite

Which fields of science does DataCite work in?

In 2022-now, 54% of research at DataCite is in Physical Sciences, 40% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (48%), Decision Sciences (30%), Business, Management and Accounting (4%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 56 fractional works · 54.0% of its workComputer Science: 50 fractional works · 48.2% of its workInformation Systems: 42 fractional works · 40.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 7 fractional works · 6.8% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.9% of its workGeology: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 41 fractional works · 39.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 31 fractional works · 29.8% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 24 fractional works · 23.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 5 fractional works · 4.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 4.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 4 fractional works · 4.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 3.8% of its workConservation: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMusic: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 6 fractional works · 6.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 4.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 3.7% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKDataCite104fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences54%Health Sciences0%Social Sciences40%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science5048.2%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences32.9%
    3. Environmental Science21.8%
    4. Mathematics11.1%
    1. Decision Sciences3129.8%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting44.2%
    3. Arts and Humanities43.8%
    4. Social Sciences21.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology44.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences21.9%
    1. Medicine00.3%
    2. Health Professions00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does DataCite specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Information Systems and Management takes 81.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Information Systems and ManagementSubfield · 24.2 works81×
  2. Decision SciencesField · 30.9 works31×
  3. Information SystemsSubfield · 42.2 works23×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.40× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.76× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Computer Science: 6.20× its world share, 50 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.84× its world share, 3 worksEarth and Planetary …Environmental Science: 0.36× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.95× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 1.33× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.32× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 30.78× its world share, 31 worksDecision SciencesSocial Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 30.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 12 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences30.78×31 works
  2. Computer Science6.20×50 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.84×3 works
  4. Arts and Humanities1.33×4 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting1.32×4 works
  6. Mathematics0.95×1 works
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.76×4 works
  8. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.40×2 works
  9. Environmental Science0.36×2 works
  10. Social Sciences0.13×2 works
  11. Health Professions0.07×0 works
  12. Medicine0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at DataCite?

Ranked on the quality score, Helena Cousijn, Sara El-Gebali and Kelly Stathis lead among researchers whose main affiliation is DataCite.

  1. 1 Helena Cousijn Germany · #525,452 worldwide 2.9k citations · 93 works
  2. 2 Sara El-Gebali Germany · #1,621,941 worldwide 8.6k citations · 37 works
  3. 3 Kelly Stathis Germany · #2,692,486 worldwide 17 citations · 24 works
  4. 4 Xiaoli Chen Germany · #2,875,664 worldwide 778 citations · 124 works
  5. 5 Paul Vierkant Germany · #2,944,396 worldwide 415 citations · 155 works
  6. 6 Matthew Buys Germany · #2,962,997 worldwide 85 citations · 32 works
  7. 7 Maria Levchenko Germany · #3,141,221 worldwide 1 citations · 16 works
  8. 8 Mohamad Mostafa Germany · #3,328,870 worldwide 6 citations · 37 works
  9. 9 Tom Demeranville Germany · #4,059,207 worldwide 49 citations · 49 works
  10. 10 Rorie Edmunds Germany · #4,064,977 worldwide 836 citations · 65 works
All ranked researchers at DataCite

What are the most cited papers from DataCite?

The most cited paper from DataCite is "Sharing and reuse of individual participant data from clinical trials: principles and recommendations" (Christian Ohmann et al., 2017), with 209 citations. Next come "DataCite - A Global Registration Agency for Research Data" (105) and "Bringing Citations and Usage Metrics Together to Make Data Count" (89).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Sharing and reuse of individual participant data from clinical trials: principles and recommendations Christian Ohmann et al. · BMJ Open Open access Dec 2017 209
2 DataCite - A Global Registration Agency for Research Data Jan Brase Conference paper Nov 2009 105
3 Bringing Citations and Usage Metrics Together to Make Data Count Helena Cousijn, Patricia Feeney, Daniella Lowenberg et al. · Data Science Journal Open access 2019 89
4 Searching Data: A Review of Observational Data Retrieval Practices in Selected Disciplines Kathleen Gregory, Paul Thomas Groth, Helena Cousijn et al. · Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Open access 12 Mar 2019 76
5 Recognizing the value of software: a software citation guide Daniel S. Katz et al. · F1000Research Open access 12 Jan 2021 67
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at DataCite?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Digital Repositories, Data Citation, Data Sharing, Open Science, Scientific Data Management, Bioinformatics, Workflow Management and Reproducibility.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Digital Repositories40▲ 1106×2 topics
  2. Data Citation35▲ 664×2 topics
  3. Data Sharing34▲ 1035×2 topics
  4. Open Science34▲ 1235×1 topic
  5. Scientific Data Management34▲ 1235×1 topic
  6. Bioinformatics18▲ 148×2 topics
  7. Workflow Management16▲ 215×2 topics
  8. Reproducibility16▲ 391×1 topic
  9. Scientific Workflows16▲ 391×1 topic
  10. Big Data14▲ 14×7 topics
  11. Data Visualization9▲ 158×3 topics
  12. Semantic Web8▲ 79×3 topics
  13. COVID-198▲ 5.8×3 topics
  14. Research Integrity8▲ 227×2 topics
  15. Open Access8▲ 73×2 topics
  16. Peer Review8▲ 209×2 topics
  17. Machine Learning8▲ 2.2×8 topics
  18. Preprints8▲ 406×1 topic
  19. Science Communication8▲ 87×1 topic
  20. Data Integration7▲ 39×3 topics
  21. Linked Data6▲ 147×2 topics
  22. Statistical Analysis6▲ 34×2 topics
  23. Parallel Computing6▲ 48×2 topics
  24. Bibliographic Framework6▲ 683×1 topic
  25. R language6▲ 651×1 topic
  26. Resource Description and Access6▲ 683×1 topic
  27. Time Series Analysis6▲ 33×1 topic
  28. Data Cleaning5▲ 156×1 topic
  29. Record Linkage5▲ 156×1 topic
  30. Knowledge Management4▲ 7.8×3 topics
  31. Grey Literature4▲ 1072×1 topic
  32. Research Information Systems4▲ 1072×1 topic
  33. Metadata Standards3▲ 136×2 topics
  34. Environmental Observations3▲ 492×1 topic
  35. Hydroinformatics3▲ 492×1 topic
  36. Indigenous Knowledge3▲ 25×2 topics
  37. Interdisciplinary Research3▲ 29×2 topics
  38. Archives2▲ 177×1 topic
  39. Digital Preservation2▲ 155×1 topic
  40. Text Mining2▲ 16×2 topics

Which research topics does DataCite publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Research Data Management Practices, Scientific Computing and Data Management, Academic Publishing and Open Access and Data Analysis with R.

Research Data Management…34Research Data Management Practices: 34 fractional worksScientific Computing and Data Management: 16 fractional worksAcademic Publishing and Open Access: 8 fractional worksData Analysis with R: 6 fractional worksLibrary Science and Info…6Library Science and Information Systems: 6 fractional worksData Quality and Management: 5 fractional worksOptics and Image Analysis: 4 fractional worksEnvironmental Monitoring and Data Management: 3 fractional worksDigital and Traditional Archives Management: 2 fractional worksscientometrics and bibliometrics research: 2 fractional works
Information SystemsInformation Systems and ManagementArtificial IntelligenceManagement Science and Operations Research4 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Research Data Management Practices Information Systems 34 works
  2. 2 Scientific Computing and Data Management Information Systems and Management 16 works
  3. 3 Academic Publishing and Open Access Information Systems and Management 8 works
  4. 4 Data Analysis with R Artificial Intelligence 6 works
  5. 5 Library Science and Information Systems Information Systems 6 works
  6. 6 Data Quality and Management Management Science and Operations Research 5 works
  7. 7 Optics and Image Analysis Management Information Systems 4 works
  8. 8 Environmental Monitoring and Data Management Geology 3 works
  9. 9 Digital and Traditional Archives Management Conservation 2 works
  10. 10 scientometrics and bibliometrics research Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 2 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available99.3%not open0.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.4%domestic only83.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has DataCite's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting2010201520202025
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is DataCite as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000054% in 2024.

still counting0.00025%0.00050%0.00075%DataCite0.00052% in 202520102020

Fractional works of DataCite over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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