Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21830501m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #218, #305.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We investigated author behaviors around the practices of publishing and citing data products within refereed astronomical journals. We set the scope of this investigation to encompass AAS publications over the last decade, including the AAS publisher transition that took place in 2008-09. Our analysis focused on parsing the journal articles’ source material (LaTeX, XML) to catalog hyperlinks between the published text and extended data products that were provided by authors as part of the standard editorial process for refereed publications.
We quantitatively and rhetorically analyzed this catalog of hyperlinks to decipher (some of) the authors’ behaviors with regard to data citation and publication. We focused on authors’ adoption and utilization of two specific data-literature links: journal hosted supplementary material and the NASA ADEC recommended system of dataset "identifiers,” which were designed to provide persistent links between articles and packages of relevant, reusable data located at trusted, established astronomy archives. These types of hyperlinks are, however, minor subsets of the overall catalog, where the bulk of author inserted links provide descriptive elements to otherwise "unpublished” material but not to unique, reusable datasets.
In general our investigation reveals a consistent level of effort by authors to cite and publish some data products, although case by case examples darkly illuminate individual author's experiences with data publication and citation within the standard editorial process. Finally, we point out a couple of functional issues with existing data-literature links as specifically related to the suite of author behaviors examined in this project.
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