On the Citation Advantage of linking to data

Bertil Dorch (1)

1 RSLIS - Royal School of Library and Information Science

This paper present some indications of the existence of a Citation Advantage related to linked data, using astrophysics as a case. Using simple measures, I find that the Citation Advantage presently (at the least since 2009) amounts to papers with links to data receiving on the average 50% more citations per paper per year, than the papers without links to data. A similar study by other authors should a cummulative effect after several years amounting to 20%. Hence, a Data Sharing Citation Advantage seems inevitable.

Keywords: Bibliometrics; Data; Astrophysics; Citations; Linking

Domains: Library and information sciences

Bertil Dorch. On the Citation Advantage of linking to data: Astrophysics. 2012. ⟨hprints-00714715v2⟩