Reference Manager Data Citation Analysis

DESCRIPTION:

This package contains data used to analyze citation metadata completeness and correctness for several common reference managers used in scholarly research and several common repositories in the Earth, space, and environmental sciences.

METHODS:

Metadata fields for import and export methods and for 8 metadata fields (authors/creators, publisher, DOI, dataset title, version, access date, publication date, and resource type) were collected from reference managers via all import methods available (app or wizard and plugin) during summer 2024 from most recent software versions of all. To encode data, citation information for each dataset as imported by Reference Manager was compared to that registered for the DOI with DataCite. Correct metadata for each of 8 fields for both import and export was encoded as 0, incorrect as 1, and missing as '' or nan. See publication and software package for more information.

FILES:

FOLDER 'coded-data' contains files that include information (DOIs) about the data examined in this study, preserved copies of exported data citations used in the data interpretation and processing, and the processed data itself encoded in columns.

FOLDER 'datacite-metadata-profiles' includes the raw metadata from each dataset DOI at the time of analysis, included for reproducibility purposes.  

FOLDER 'bibtex-files' includes the downloaded .bib files, where available, for each dataset DOI examined.

See README file for more information.