TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– In recent years, a large number of data repositories have been built and used. However, the extent to which scientific data are re-used in academic publications is still unknown. The purpose of this paper is to explore the functions of re-used scientific data in scholarly publication in different fields. Design/methodology/approach– To address these questions, the authors identified 827 publications citing resources in the Dryad Digital Repository indexed by Scopus from 2010 to 2015. Findings– The results show that: the number of citations to scientific data increases sharply over the years, but mainly from data-intensive disciplines, such as agricultural, biology science, environment science and medicine; the majority of citations are from the originating articles; and researchers tend to reuse data produced by their own research groups. Research limitations/implications– Dryad data may be re-used without being formally cited. Originality/value– The conservatism in data sharing suggests that more should be done to encourage researchers to re-use other’s data.
VL  - 68
IS  - 4
SN  - 2050-3806
DO  - 10.1108/AJIM-01-2016-0008
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-01-2016-0008
AU  - He Lin
AU  - Nahar Vinita
PY  - 2016
Y1  - 2016/01/01
TI  - Reuse of scientific data in academic publications: An investigation of Dryad Digital Repository
T2  - Aslib Journal of Information Management
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 478
EP  - 494
Y2  - 2024/04/27
ER  -