As an important component of the scholarly record, research data, software and code are increasingly managed as research outputs in their own right, though are not typically subject to peer review. In line with the broader ‘open research’ movement there is a growing impetus for datasets, software and code to be curated in repositories, openly available wherever possible subject to relevant legal and ethical constraints. Data repositories such as Figshare, Dryad and Zenodo routinely allocate DOIs for deposited data while many universities in the UK also allocate and mint DOIs in their nascent institutionally based data repositories through Datacite which means they will be automatically tracked by altmetric.com in the same way as journal articles. While the repository infrastructure continues to develop and there are pockets of best practice, data sharing and reuse is not yet fully established across UK HE. Reward mechanisms are immature and data citation, for example, is limited and not easy to track. Clarivate Analytics’ Data Citation Index coverage of UK based repositories is still relatively low and, as a subscription based product, is not widely accessible. COUNTER compliant downloads can be derived from IRUSdata-UK (beta) which currently tracks 27 UK based institutional data repositories. Altmetrics therefore offers a low barrier method to track engagement with datasets and, in lieu of a more formal process, might be regarded as a type of informal peer review. We have undertaken a preliminary analysis of repositories that participate in IRUSdata-UK (beta) using it as a source of DOIs to run against the altmetric.com API to discover to what extent research data, software and code is being shared. This talk will present these preliminary results and explore how and why datasets are being shared across the various platforms tracked by altmetric.com and potential barriers. It will consider how data repository managers can encourage and facilitate data sharing through social media networks, blogs and “data journalism” and will draw on the Research Data Management (RDM) Engagement Award at the University of Leeds which is exploring linking RDM with the Open Science movement via the Wikimedia suite of tools. What does the altmetric data currently tell us about how research data is being linked to this global platform

1. Has anyone seen my data? Incentivising
#opendata sharing with altmetrics
Nick Sheppard
0000-0002-3400-0274
@mrnick
@OpenResLeeds

2. • Research data, software, code
–increasingly managed as research outputs in their own right
• Data repositories routinely allocate DOIs
–automatically tracked by altmetric.com in the same way as journal articles
• Reward mechanisms are immature
–data citation is limited and not easy to track
• Altmetrics offers a low barrier method to track engagement with datasets
• Results from UK based institutional data repositories
• How can data repository managers encourage and facilitate data sharing
through social media networks, blogs and Wikipedia?
Has anyone seen my data? (Original abstract)

3. Publications, Open Access and the REF
“to be eligible for submission to the REF 2021, authors’
final peer-reviewed manuscripts must have been
deposited in an institutional or subject repository.
Deposited material should be discoverable, and free to
read and download, for anyone with an internet
connection”
REF 2021 Open Access policy, HEFCE (2016)

4. Open Research Data
“The primary purpose of research data is to provide the
information necessary to support or validate a research
project's observations, findings or outputs.”
Concordat on Open Research Data (2016)

5. ‘Open Research’
“the central theme of open research is to make clear
accounts of the methodology freely available via the
internet, along with any data or results extracted or derived
from them.” - Wikipedia
As a charity, Wellcome works to ensure that the results of
the research we fund are applied for the public good. This
includes creating an environment that enables and
incentivises researchers to maximise the value of their
research outputs, including data, software and materials.
Policy on data, software and materials management and
sharing (Wellcome Trust)

6. Open Research and the REF
The revised template will also include a section on ‘open
research’, detailing the submitting unit’s open access
strategy, including where this goes above and beyond the
REF open access policy requirements, and wider activity to
encourage the effective sharing and management of
research data. The panels will set out further guidance on
this in the panel criteria.
Initial decisions on the Research Excellence Framework 2021

7. Data citation
All users of research data must formally cite the data they use […]
The obligation to recognise through citation and acknowledgement the
original creators of the data must be respected […] Publishers should
enable the formal citation of data in articles to support these practices.
Concordat on Open Research Data (2016)
• currently no standardised method
• many journals (still) include data as “supplementary” information
Advice at Leeds:
• data files should be deposited in a recognised repository
• data availability statement in the body of the paper AND as an entry
in the reference list

8. A word on peer review
“Ordinary” journals
“Referees may ask to see supporting data not submitted for publication"
Journal of the Royal Society Interface
From September 12th 2018, Nature Communications will be setting a higher standard of data
reporting for papers under peer review. Nature (2018)
Data journals
• A Survey of Peer Review Guidelines - Todd Carpenter (2017)
• 39 peer review policies
• Editorial, Metadata, Data Quality, Methodology Review, and Other

10. Clarivate Analytics Data Citation Index
• Limited coverage
–Master Data Repository List
• Subscription based product
Scholexplorer
“Scholexplorer populates and provides access to
a graph of links between dataset and literature
objects and dataset and dataset objects.”

11. Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum
• Cited once according to Data Citation Index
–Original citing paper
• One ‘real’ citation according to Scholexplorer
• 30,000 downloads
• Manual search of WRRO
–25 citing papers
• Dimensions from Digital Science
–198 hits

12. Altmetrics: what’s the score?
• Data source: IRUSdata-UK (beta)
–currently tracks 27 UK based institutional data repositories
–COUNTER compliant downloads
• Results (Google doc)
–Only one with altmetric score > 100
–Only 15 with altmetric score > 10
–Mostly Twitter

13. Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum
• Cited once according to Data Citation Index
–Original citing paper
• One ‘real’ citation according to Scholexplorer
• 30,000 downloads
• Manual search of WRRO
–25 citing papers
• Altmetric Score?
• Data Dryad / UK Data Archive
–Limited sharing
–Anomalies

15. A culture of data sharing?
• Promote data as a scholarly output in
its own right
–Repositories
–DOIs
• Open Research
–Share publications AND underlying data
• Social media networks
–Twitter / blogs
–Wikipedia
By Sander van der Wel from Netherlands (Young toekans sharing food) [CC BY-SA 2.0
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

16. Manage it locally to share it globally: RDM and Wikimedia Commons
• First Data Management Engagement Award
–Sponsored by SPARC Europe, University of
Cambridge, Jisc
• Link RDM with the open science movement
• Wikimedia suite of tools
–share openly licensed research material via
Wikimedia Commons
–can be used to improve Wikipedia

17. Example: Baxter the Robot
Alomari, Muhannad and Hogg, David C. and Cohn, Anthony G. (2017) Leeds Robotic Commands.
University of Leeds. [Dataset] https://doi.org/10.5518/110
Video from dataset uploaded to Wikimedia
Commons and embedded and cited on
Wikipedia.

18. Get involved
To register your interest in the project please
use this form:
RDM Engagement – we need your help!
Related blogposts:
–RDM Engagement: Project launch
–Open in order to…contribute to the global digital
commons: University collections and Wikimedia
–Wikipedia, information literacy and open access