Database citation in supplementary data linked to Europe PubMed Central full text biomedical articles.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In this study, we present an analysis of data citation practices in full text research articles and their corresponding supplementary data files, made available in the Open Access set of articles from Europe PubMed Central. Our aim is to investigate whether supplementary data files should be considered as a source of information for integrating the literature with biomolecular databases.

Results

Using text-mining methods to identify and extract a variety of core biological database accession numbers, we found that the supplemental data files contain many more database citations than the body of the article, and that those citations often take the form of a relatively small number of articles citing large collections of accession numbers in text-based files. Moreov

SUBMITTER: Kafkas S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4363206 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature