MBDBMetrics: an online metrics tool to measure the impact of biological data resources.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

There now exist thousands of molecular biology databases covering every aspect of biological data. This database infrastructure takes significant effort and funding to develop and maintain. The creators of these databases need to make strong justifications to funders to prove their impact or importance. There are many publication metrics and tools available such as Google Scholar to measure citation impact or AltMetrics covering multiple measures including social media coverage.

Results

In this article, we describe a series of novel impact metrics that have been applied initially to the UniProt database, and now made available via a Google Colab to enable any molecular biology resource to gain several additional metrics. These metrics, powered by freely available

SUBMITTER: Insana G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10733715 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature