Data publishing

[8] A large number of journals and publishers support supplementary material being attached to research articles, including datasets.

These repositories offer a publicly accessible web interface for searching and browsing hosted datasets, and may include additional features such as a digital object identifier, for permanent citation of the data, and linking to associated published papers and code.

Data papers or data articles are “scholarly publication of a searchable metadata document describing a particular on-line accessible dataset, or a group of datasets, published in accordance to the standard academic practices”.

[13] A non-exhaustive list of data journals has been compiled by staff at the University of Edinburgh.

[15][16] A 2011 paper reported an inability to determine how often data citation happened in social sciences.

[21] In October 2018 CrossRef expressed its support for cataloging datasets and recommending their citation.

[25] Indeed, citing data poses significant challenges to computer scientists and the main problems to address are related to:[26]