Some of you have seeen already that DataCite is offering a statistics page for some time now: http://stats.datacite.org.
This page provides you with detailed information on how many DOI names were registered by which DataCite member or data center, and also offering information about "Resolutions per month".
This nice feature allows everyone to see how often DataCite DOI names are actually resolved, how often people want to see what is behind a DOI name. In January, we had almost half a million resolutions which is a nice number of usage. We also had even more failed DOI resolutions, which calls for a bit of explanation:
Every not working resolution is counted as a failure, so if someone mis-types a DOI name in a handle server it is an error, if someone made a wrong hyperlink to a DOI name - by including for example a ")" at the end of the DOI name - it is an error. Most of the other failures actually come from attempts to resolve DOI names before they were registered.
But going back to the successfull resolutions we can now present you the
11 (*) most popular datasets of January 2013, registered by DataCite:
- Number 1: 1769 resolutions
Prevalence and use of Twitter among scholars.
Jason Priem, Kaitlin Costello, Tyler Dzuba.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.104629 - Number 2: 861 resolutions
Portable pseudo-random reference sequences with Mersenne Twister using GNU Octave.
de Rigo, D. (2012).
Mastrave project technical report.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.94593 - Number 3: 823 resolutions
Data from: Mandated data archiving greatly improves access to research data
Vines TH, Andrew RL, Bock DG, Franklin MT, Gilbert KJ, Kane NC, Moore J, Moyers BT, Renaut S, Rennison DJ, Veen T, Yeaman S (2013)
Dryad Digital Repository.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6bs31
data package to:
Vines TH, Andrew RL, Bock DG, Franklin MT, Gilbert KJ, Kane NC, Moore J, Moyers BT, Renaut S, Rennison DJ, Veen T, Yeaman S (2013)
Mandated data archiving greatly improves access to research data.
The FASEB Journal, online in advance of print.
doi:10.1096/fj.12-218164 - Number 4: 560 resolutions
Corpas Family Trio Exome Data.
Manuel Corpas.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.106340 - Number 5: 546 resolutions
Enriching scholarly content with article-level discussion and metrics.
Euan Adie, William Roe.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.105851 - Number 6: 485 resolutions
Open Access Strategien fuer wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen
Arbeitsgruppe Open Access in der Allianz der deutschen Wissenschaftsorganisationen (2912)
http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/allianzoa.005 - Number 7: 416 resolutions
Turborotonde en turboplein: ontwerp, capaciteit en veiligheid
Fortuijn, L.G.H.; (2013)
TRAIL Research School.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4233/uuid:e01364ce-78de-465b-a8c8-39e28a4585dd - Number 8: 394 resolutions
GenoCAD Training Set I
Jean Peccoud, Laura Adam, Mandy Wilson.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.153827 - Number 9: 392 resolutions
Lab Notebook
Carl Boettiger (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.106620 - Number 10: 389 resolutions
Son exome files.
Gustavo Glusman, Mike Cariaso, Rafael Jimenez, Daniel Swan, Bastian Greshake, Jong Bhak, Darren W Logan, Manuel Corpas.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.92584 - Number 11: 376 resolutions
THE TOPLINE EDITION OF THE 2012 UC, BIORAFT AND NPG LAB SAFETY SURVEY DATA.
NPG Market Research.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.105431
So our 11 most popular datasets in January are: 1 poster, 7 data records and 3 textual records.
This of course is fine as the scope of DataCite is to make scientific information citable that is not classical scholarly output.
It also gives a rough idea of the heterogenity of content and of disciplines that DataCite is covering.
(*) ERRATA: In an earlier version of this article, we had only the top 10 datasets, but the actual number 3 from Dryad slipped through our fingers.