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ArticlePloS one2024

Design, development, and implementation of IsoBank: A centralized repository for isotopic data.

Oliver N Shipley, Anna J Dabrowski, Gabriel J Bowen, Brian Hayden, Jonathan N Pauli, Christopher Jordan, Lesleigh Anderson, Adriana Bailey, Clement P Bataille, Carla Cicero and 29 more

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Article in PloS one, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Single, the Whole, and the Pooled: Implications of Tissue Choice for Stable Isotope Analysis.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2026
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  3. Wildlife trade investigations benefit from multivariate stable isotope analyses.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

39 authors.

Oliver N ShipleyDepartment of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-5163-3471
Anna J DabrowskiTexas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America.
Gabriel J BowenDepartment of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
Brian HaydenDepartment of Biology, Canadian Rivers Institute, University of New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada.
Jonathan N PauliDepartment of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America.
Christopher JordanTexas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America.
Lesleigh AndersonUnited States Geological Survey Geoscience and Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, Colorado, United States of America.
Adriana BaileyClimate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America.
Clement P BatailleDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Carla CiceroMuseum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, Canada, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-6282-2339
Hilary G CloseRosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America.
Craig CookUniversity of Wyoming Stable Isotope Facility, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America.
Joseph A CookDepartment of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America.
Ankur R DesaiDepartment of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-5226-6041
Jaivime EvaristoCopernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-1387-229X
Tim R FilleyDepartment of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States of America.
Christine A M FranceMuseum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Suitland, Maryland, United States of America.
Andrew L JacksonSchool of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Sora Lee KimDepartment of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, United States of America.
Sebastian KopfDepartment of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America.
Julie LoiselDepartment of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America.
Philip J ManlickDepartment of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America.
Jamie M McFarlinDepartment of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America.
Bailey C McMeansDepartment of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Tamsin C O'ConnellDepartment of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, United Kingdom.
Suzanne E Pilaar BirchDepartment of Anthropology and Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-1544-5881
Annie L PutmanUnited States Geological Survey, Utah Water Science Center, West Valley City, Utah, United States of America.
Brice X SemmensScripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America.
Chris StantisDepartment of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
Craig A StrickerUnited States Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Denver, Colorado, United States of America.
Paul SzejnerBioeconomy and Environment Unit, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0002-7780-1215
Tara L E TrammellDepartment of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America.
Mark D UhenDepartment of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, Vermont, United States of America.
Samantha Weintraub-LeffNational Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America.
Matthew J WoollerAlaska Stable Isotope Facility, Water and Environmental Research Center, Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America.
John W WilliamsDepartment of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America.
Christopher T YarnesCalifornia Davis Stable Isotope Facility, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America.
Hannah B Vander ZandenDepartment of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America.
Seth D NewsomeDepartment of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stable isotope data have made pivotal contributions to nearly every discipline of the physical and natural sciences. As the generation and application of stable isotope data continues to grow exponentially, so does the need for a unifying data repository to improve accessibility and promote collaborative engagement. This paper provides an overview of the design, development, and implementation of IsoBank (www.isobank.org), a community-driven initiative to create an open-access repository for stable isotope data implemented online in 2021. A central goal of IsoBank is to provide a web-accessible database supporting interdisciplinary stable isotope research and educational opportunities. To achieve this goal, we convened a multi-disciplinary group of over 40 analytical experts, stable isotope researchers, database managers, and web developers to collaboratively design the database. This paper outlines the main features of IsoBank and provides a focused description of the core metadata structure. We present plans for future database and tool development and engagement across the scientific community. These efforts will help facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration among the many users of stable isotopic data while also offering useful data resources and standardization of metadata reporting across eco-geoinformatics landscapes.

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PMID39240878
PMCPMC11379280

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