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ArticleScientific data2018

U-Index, a dataset and an impact metric for informatics tools and databases.

Alison Callahan, Rainer Winnenburg, Nigam H Shah

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Article in Scientific data, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Alison CallahanStanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Medical School Office Building X215, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5163-380X
Rainer WinnenburgStanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Medical School Office Building X215, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2770-2809
Nigam H ShahStanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Medical School Office Building X215, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

Funding

Methods for generalized ontology terms enrichment analysisR01LM011369 · NLM · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI SHAH, NIGAM H · 2013 to 2020
$5.0M
NLM NIH HHS R01 LM011369
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Measuring the usage of informatics resources such as software tools and databases is essential to quantifying their impact, value and return on investment. We have developed a publicly available dataset of informatics resource publications and their citation network, along with an associated metric (u-Index) to measure informatics resources' impact over time. Our dataset differentiates the context in which citations occur to distinguish between 'awareness' and 'usage', and uses a citing universe of open access publications to derive citation counts for quantifying impact. Resources with a high ratio of usage citations to awareness citations are likely to be widely used by others and have a high u-Index score. We have pre-calculated the u-Index for nearly 100,000 informatics resources. We demonstrate how the u-Index can be used to track informatics resource impact over time. The method of calculating the u-Index metric, the pre-computed u-Index values, and the dataset we compiled to calculate the u-Index are publicly available.

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PMID29557976
PMCPMC5859919

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