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| author | Piekniewska, Agata Roelandse, Martijn Lloyd, Kevin C Kent Korf, Ian Voss, Stephen Randal de Castro, Giovanni Magnani, Diogo M Varga, Zoltan James-Zorn, Christina Horb, Marko Grethe, Jeffery S Bandrowski, Anita |
| author_facet | Piekniewska, Agata Roelandse, Martijn Lloyd, Kevin C Kent Korf, Ian Voss, Stephen Randal de Castro, Giovanni Magnani, Diogo M Varga, Zoltan James-Zorn, Christina Horb, Marko Grethe, Jeffery S Bandrowski, Anita Piekniewska, Agata Roelandse, Martijn Lloyd, Kevin C Kent Korf, Ian Voss, Stephen Randal de Castro, Giovanni Magnani, Diogo M Varga, Zoltan James-Zorn, Christina Horb, Marko Grethe, Jeffery S Bandrowski, Anita |
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| contents | Do organisms need an impact factor? Citations of key biological resources including model organisms reveal usage patterns and impact. Piekniewska, Agata Roelandse, Martijn Lloyd, Kevin C Kent Korf, Ian Voss, Stephen Randal de Castro, Giovanni Magnani, Diogo M Varga, Zoltan James-Zorn, Christina Horb, Marko Grethe, Jeffery S Bandrowski, Anita Journal Impact Factor Animals Biomedical Research Animals, Genetically Modified Humans Research resources like transgenic animals and antibodies are the workhorses of biomedicine, enabling investigators to relatively easily study specific disease conditions. As key biological resources, transgenic animals and antibodies are often validated, maintained, and distributed from university-based stock centers. As these centers heavily rely on grant funding, it is critical that they are cited by investigators so that usage can be tracked. However, unlike systems for tracking the impact of papers, the conventions and systems for tracking key resource usage and impact lag. Previous studies have shown that about 50% of the resources are not findable, making the studies they support irreproducible, but also makes tracking resources difficult. The RRID (Research Resource Identifiers) project is filling this gap by working with journals and resource providers to improve citation practices and to track the usage of these key resources. Here, we reviewed 10 years of citation practices for five university based stock centers, characterizing each reference into two broad categories: findable (authors could use the RRID, stock number, or full name) and not findable (authors could use a nickname or a common name that is not unique to the resource). The data revealed that when stock centers asked their communities to cite resources by RRID, in addition to helping stock centers more easily track resource usage by increasing the number of RRID papers, authors shifted from citing resources predominantly by nickname (~50% of the time) to citing them by one of the findable categories (~85%) in a matter of several years. In the case of one stock center, the MMRRC, the improvement in findability is also associated with improvements in the adherence to NIH rigor criteria, as determined by a significant increase in the Rigor and Transparency Index for studies using MMRRC mice. From these data, it was not possible to determine whether outreach to authors or changes to stock center websites drove better citation practices, but findability of research resources and rigor adherence were improved. |
| format | Artículo científico |
| id | pubmed_40802618 |
| institution | PubMed |
| language | en |
| publishDate | 2025 |
| publisher | PloS one |
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| spellingShingle | Do organisms need an impact factor? Citations of key biological resources including model organisms reveal usage patterns and impact. Piekniewska, Agata Roelandse, Martijn Lloyd, Kevin C Kent Korf, Ian Voss, Stephen Randal de Castro, Giovanni Magnani, Diogo M Varga, Zoltan James-Zorn, Christina Horb, Marko Grethe, Jeffery S Bandrowski, Anita Journal Impact Factor Animals Biomedical Research Animals, Genetically Modified Humans Do organisms need an impact factor? Citations of key biological resources including model organisms reveal usage patterns and impact. Piekniewska, Agata Roelandse, Martijn Lloyd, Kevin C Kent Korf, Ian Voss, Stephen Randal de Castro, Giovanni Magnani, Diogo M Varga, Zoltan James-Zorn, Christina Horb, Marko Grethe, Jeffery S Bandrowski, Anita Journal Impact Factor Animals Biomedical Research Animals, Genetically Modified Humans Research resources like transgenic animals and antibodies are the workhorses of biomedicine, enabling investigators to relatively easily study specific disease conditions. As key biological resources, transgenic animals and antibodies are often validated, maintained, and distributed from university-based stock centers. As these centers heavily rely on grant funding, it is critical that they are cited by investigators so that usage can be tracked. However, unlike systems for tracking the impact of papers, the conventions and systems for tracking key resource usage and impact lag. Previous studies have shown that about 50% of the resources are not findable, making the studies they support irreproducible, but also makes tracking resources difficult. The RRID (Research Resource Identifiers) project is filling this gap by working with journals and resource providers to improve citation practices and to track the usage of these key resources. Here, we reviewed 10 years of citation practices for five university based stock centers, characterizing each reference into two broad categories: findable (authors could use the RRID, stock number, or full name) and not findable (authors could use a nickname or a common name that is not unique to the resource). The data revealed that when stock centers asked their communities to cite resources by RRID, in addition to helping stock centers more easily track resource usage by increasing the number of RRID papers, authors shifted from citing resources predominantly by nickname (~50% of the time) to citing them by one of the findable categories (~85%) in a matter of several years. In the case of one stock center, the MMRRC, the improvement in findability is also associated with improvements in the adherence to NIH rigor criteria, as determined by a significant increase in the Rigor and Transparency Index for studies using MMRRC mice. From these data, it was not possible to determine whether outreach to authors or changes to stock center websites drove better citation practices, but findability of research resources and rigor adherence were improved. |
| title | Do organisms need an impact factor? Citations of key biological resources including model organisms reveal usage patterns and impact. |
| topic | Journal Impact Factor Animals Biomedical Research Animals, Genetically Modified Humans |
| url | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40802618/ |