Dataset: Lost in transition. Quantifying the funding metadata gap in Crossref

Data and code belonging to the manuscript:  

Lost in transition. Quantifying the funding metadata gap in Crossref 

Abstract

The importance of having funding metadata openly available is widely acknowledged for research transparency and tracking research funding outcomes. Since 2013, Crossref has provided members the opportunity to deposit funding information when registering DOIs for publications. However, earlier research shows this information is far from complete, with coverage varying significantly across publishers despite funding information often being available in article acknowledgement sections.

This paper quantifies this metadata gap at approximately 30%. Using publications from two national funding councils (the Dutch research council NWO and the Austrian Science Fund FWF), we demonstrate that 30% of funding acknowledgements readily available to publishers in full-text articles are not transferred as metadata to Crossref. We also observe considerable differences between publishers. 

This work provides, for the first time, a concrete baseline for improving funding metadata quality and coverage in Crossref. It may also inform publishers about their performance, many of whom may be unaware of these gaps due to outsourced metadata extraction processes.

This dataset contains the following files:

Data_dictionary.csv

Lost in transition data to share - FWF. csv - publication DOI's with associated metadata for FWF

Lost in transition data to share - NWO. csv - publication DOI's with associated metadata for NWO

Code.rtf - all google scripts used to process the data