How correctly to cite your dataset for publication?
annabonner opened this issue · comments
First of all, thank you for providing this data!
I am using your dataset in my research (merged Google and Apple data: https://github.com/ActiveConclusion/COVID19_mobility/blob/master/summary_reports/summary_report_regions.csv), but I don't know how correctly write a reference for it. I don't understand, what does it mean "ActiveConclusion"? Is it some organisation or a simple nickname? Could you elaborate, please, how is better to cite your dataset for publication?
Thank you very much!
To be honest, I don't know how it is academically legal to cite this repository, as it is just an aggregator of other data sources. I think the most important is to cite the original data sources. For example, Google here asks you to do it like this:
Google LLC "Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports".
https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/ Accessed: < date >.
But if you very want to cite my repository in your research, I suggest you do it something like this:
Kulik O. (2020). COVID-19 Mobility Data Aggregator. Online: https://github.com/ActiveConclusion/COVID19_mobility Accessed: < date >
ActiveConclusion it's just nickname. I have created a separate account for this data for some reasons. Real me, for example, in Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oleh-kulik/
@ActiveConclusion Thank you, I appreciate it! I think that data aggregation it's not an easy problem, so it would be unfair not to cite your repository in my research.
I researched more deeply the question of citing the Github repository in an academic paper and found this guide. It would be great if you made these instructions for your repository. Please, check this guide if you can.
Thank you very much!
@annabonner Ok, I'll try to implement it in this repository. Thank you for the good suggestion!
I added my repository to Zenodo. It's available here: https://zenodo.org/record/3978281#.XzFXaij7RPY. But, unfortunately, I was not able to make this repository automatically synchronize with Zenodo on every update. I will probably update the data there regularly manually (weekly or monthly).
So, now you can cite this source like this:
Kulik O. (2020). COVID-19 Mobility Data Aggregator. Online: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3977029
This DOI represents all versions, and will always resolve to the latest one. But you can choose specific DOI for a specific version.
That's great! Thank you very much!