Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A Scientific Data paper describing a 10-year ocean-current monitoring dataset
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A research article that uses a dataset to answer a question is not a data paper (the dataset is means, not subject)
Editorial commentary
Data papers were established to give citable scholarly credit for data curation work that produced reusable resources. Scientific Data (Nature Portfolio), Earth System Science Data (Copernicus), and Data in Brief (Elsevier) are exemplar venues. Data-paper review focuses on data quality and documentation, not on novel scientific claims from the data.
References
- Wilkinson et al. 2016 Scientific Data (FAIR Principles)
- Chavan and Penev 2011 ‘The data paper: a mechanism to incentivize data publishing’ BMC Bioinformatics
Also known as
Data descriptor · Dataset paper
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
xml
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