What if we could measure the reach and impact of open data? This question remains central to Make Data Count and has shaped our 2025 initiatives. Over the past year, we have worked on expanding the data-usage information available to the community and we championed practical ways to bring data...
DOI: 10.60804/71BR-9Z42 Can you tell us a bit about your role at PLOS, and your involvement with open science? I’m the Chief Scientific Officer at PLOS and I have responsibility for the Editorial department. PLOS’s mission is to drive open science forward through meaningful changes in publishing.
DOI: 10.60804/5×77-bq53 Many institutions are looking at their evaluation processes with the goal of making assessment more reflective of the variety of researchers’ contributions and also more aligned to open scholarship. A key area of attention as part of assessment reform relates to the recognition of a diversity of open...
DOI: 10.60804/9qxx-bh58 Didier Torny is a Senior Researcher at CNRS, and the project lead for Matilda, a bibliographic platform built specifically for open science. We spoke with Didier about the project, and their plans to incorporate links to datasets for the articles they index in Matilda. The motivation for Matilda...
DOI: 10.60804/8v2k-cm37 The Open Science Monitoring Initiative promotes the open science monitoring principles and adoption of practices to understand the progress of open science. Make Data Count is an active participant in OSMI, through its Working Group focused on open science monitoring with scholarly content providers. We had a...
DOI 10.60804/80tg-6d89 With Elisabeth Shook The Data Citation Corpus aggregates data citations from multiple sources, and one of our areas of interest is to expand its disciplinary coverage. Through a collaboration between Make Data Count and ICPSR (the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research), citations for social science datasets...
DOI: 10.60804/hcfm-jx07 The majority of research activities involve creating, collecting, or using data. While datasets constitute the backbone of research activities, they are currently sidelined as part of research evaluation frameworks which predominantly focus on article publications.
DOI: 10.60804/drrx-4m69 The fourth release of the Data Citation Corpus incorporates data citations from Europe PMC and additions to affiliation metadata. Our latest release for the Data Citation Corpus is just out, including 5.2 million new data citations from Europe PMC, and additions to the affiliation metadata for some of the citation records.
Post by Make Data Count advisors Daniella Lowenberg and Jennifer Lin DOI: 10.60804/asfb-f691 We are thrilled to announce the launch of our Kaggle competition “Make Data Count – Finding Data References”. Make Data Count (MDC) maintains an open corpus of data citations and this competition seeks state of the art AI advancements (including large language models (LLMs)) to identify mentions of data in papers AND contextualize the
DOI: 10.60804/KKE3-6Q77 Marta Teperek is the Programme Leader for FAIR Data at Open Science NL. She is a researcher by training and obtained her PhD in epigenetics and developmental biology from the University of Cambridge. Hans de Jonge is the Director of Open Science NL. He has worked at NWO since 2018. As a programme leader, he was responsible for various aspects of NWO’s open science policy.
Reese Richardson (Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University), Iratxe Puebla (Make Data Count), Jason Portenoy (DataCite), Karen Gutzman (Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine) and Kristi Holmes (Galter Health Sciences Library and Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine) DOI: