Make Data Count has been at the forefront of addressing the critical need to develop open data metrics to enable the evaluation of data usage. The Director of Make Data Count, Iratxe Puebla shares a recap of the recent Make Data Count Summit, which brought together representatives across research and government to explore next steps toward responsible data metrics.

Scott Edmunds is Editor-in-Chief at GigaScience Press, which has worked closely with DataCite since 2011, as part of the publisher’s commitment to open science and open data. Scott is a member of the Make Data Count advisory group and supports the initiative’s efforts to make it possible to evaluate the usage of data in the later steps of the data-sharing cycle, so that we can better assess the benefits of public sharing of data.

Do you have a feeling that a lot is happening in the open data space? Then you are not alone. Over the last decade, I've touched on various parts of the open data world including from an editorial perspective and more recently in considering data publishing ethics. I am thrilled to be joining DataCite on June 1, 2023, to full -time focus on the adoption and recognition of open data.

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In the realm of scholarly publishing, the discipline metadata of outputs is of utmost importance. It is the backbone upon which works are discovered, indexed, and ultimately read. Without proper discipline metadata, outputs risk being lost in the vast sea of information in the scholarly landscape. However, despite the importance of discipline metadata, it can be a source of frustration for both authors and publishers.

In a recent conversation with Dr. Isabella Peters, she mentioned: Can we make the same statements about data citation and data publication behavior? And If so, what are data citation patterns in each discipline?. These questions are at the center of the ‘Meaningful Data Counts’ project that Dr. Stefanie Haustein and Dr. Isabella Peters lead.

In May, the Make Data Count team announced that we have received additional funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for work on the Make Data Count (MDC) initiative. This will enable DataCite to do additional work in two important areas: Implement a bibliometrics dashboard that enables bibliometricians – funded by a separate Sloan grant – to do quantitative studies around data usage and citation behaviors.

For the past several years data citation has been an important topic in the research community. The community came together and agreed that data must be granted first-class citizenship in the practice of scholarship. Thus the community defined a set of guiding principles for data within scholarly literature. This is known as the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (JDDCP)[@https://doi.org/10.25490/a97f-egyk], published in 2014.