Opening Up Translational Science Data Impact Through the Data Citation Corpus - Make Data Count

"As open science practices continue to gain momentum, understanding how data itself advances science and benefits patients is more important than ever. Open datasets can catalyze new discoveries and enable collaborations across disciplines, supporting progress in clinical care – but can we actually measure that impact?

Through a recent collaboration between researchers at Northwestern University and Make Data Count, we carried out an exploratory analysis of the Data Citation Corpus to begin to probe how biomedical datasets are used and reused, and what that reuse tells us about their translational impact: how does knowledge move through datasets from basic science into real-world health applications."