Analysis of the coverage of the Data Citation Index – Thomson Reuters: disciplines, document types and repositories
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https://doi.org/10.3989/redc.2014.1.1114Keywords:
Data, research data, open access, data sharing, scientific communication, databases, citation indexes, Web of Science, Thomson ReutersAbstract
In the past years, the movement of data sharing has been enjoying great popularity. Within this context, Thomson Reuters launched at the end of 2012 a new product inside the Web of Knowledge family: the Data Citation Index. The aim of this new database is to enable discovery and access, from a single place, to data from a variety of data repositories from different subject areas and from around the world. In short note we present some results from the analysis of the Data Citation Index. Specifically, we address the following issues: discipline coverage, data types present in the database and repositories that were included at the time of the study.
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