Identifying Scientific Project-generated Data Citation from Full-text Articles: An Investigation of TCGA Data Citation

Abstract

In the open science era, it is typical to share project-generated scientific data by depositing it in an open and accessible database. Moreover, scientific publications are preserved in a digital library archive. It is challenging to identify the data usage that is mentioned in literature and associate it with its source. Here, we investigated the data usage of a government-funded cancer genomics project, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), via a full-text literature analysis.

Keywords

• scientific data
• full-text literature
• open access
• pubmed central
• data citation