Published in Front Matter

Data citation is core to DataCite's mission and DataCite is involved in several projects that try to facilitate data citation, including THOR, Data Citation Implementation Pilot (DCIP), Research Data Alliance (RDA), and COPDESS. The biggest roadblock for wider data citation adoption might be insufficient incentives for individual researchers, but another major challenge is that implementing data citation is still too complicated.

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Applied MathematicsComputational Theory and MathematicsGeneral Agricultural and Biological SciencesGeneral Immunology and MicrobiologyGeneral Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

The BioStudies database

Published in Molecular Systems Biology
Authors Jo McEntyre, Ugis Sarkans, Alvis Brazma
metadatasoftware citationComputer and information sciencesFOS: Computer and information sciencesFOS: Computer and information sciences

To better understand research communication, we need a GROUPID (group object identifier)

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The following is a guest post by Daniel S. Katz, cross-posted from his blog. After a number of general discussions in the research communication community, mostly focused on software citation, and then a few separate discussions with Anita Bandrowski...