TRANSPARENT RANKING: Institutional DATA Repositories by Google Scholar (March 2024)

TRANSPARENT RANKING: Institutional DATA Repositories by Google Scholar

16th Edition (March 2024)

          During the last months, we realized the indexing of records of several open access repositories by Google Scholar is not as complete as previously without a clear reason. From the experience of a few cases, it looks that GS penalizes error in the metadata descriptions, so it is important to the affected repositories to check their level of indexing and to try to identify potential problems.

          Please, consider the following Indexing GS guidelines
          https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html
          https://www.or2015.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/or-2015-anurag-google-scholar.pdf

          and the following material: Exposing Repository Content to Google Scholar

          A few suggestions for improving the web visibility of the contents of your institutional OA repository
         "Altmetrics of the Open Access Institutional Repositories: A Webometrics Approach"

          As a service for the OA community we are providing four lists of repositories (all (institutional+subject), institutional, portals and CRIS) with the raw numbers of records in GS for their web domains (site:xxx.yyy.zz excluding citations and patents) ranked by decreasing number of items as collected during the first week of MARCH 2024. The list is still incomplete as we are still adding new repositories.

          As usual, you can contact our editor (Isidro F. Aguillo) for any comment or suggestion.


TRANSPARENT RANKINGS

ALL REPOSITORIES INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES PORTALS OF JOURNALS CRIS DATA REPOSITORIES


RANK DATA REPO ITEMS IN GS
1 American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database 1080
2 ReShare data 1060
3 Research Data Leeds Repository 670
4 Borealis The Canadian Dataverse Repository 573
5 University of Bath Research Data Archive 468
6 Nottingham Research Data Management Repository 366
7 DataDOI 221
8 University of Reading Research Data Archive 158
9 Tudatalib Technische Universität Darmstadt Research Data 155
10 NIST Materials Data Repository 132
11 University of Stirling Online Repository for Research Data DataSTORRE 105
12 Mannheim University Research Data 99
13 Repositório de Dados Científicos de instituições portuguesas 76
14 Research Data UNIPD Università di Padova 70
15 Base de Dados Científicos da Universidade Federal do Paraná 61
16 Fulir DATA Ruđer Bošković Institute 56
17 University of Adelaide Figshare 51
18 DataverseNL 49
19 Archaeology Data Service 47
20 JGSS Data Download System 45
21 Aston University Data Explorer 41
21 University of Sheffield ORDA Online Research Data 41
23 Sheffield Hallam University SHU Research Data Archive SHURDA 36
24 Polar Data Repository 34
25 Kent University Data Repository 31
26 Liverpool John Moores University LJMU Data Repository 29
26 Open Research Data from Heidelberg University heiDATA 29
28 Open Data LMU Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 28
28 Research Data Management for Purdue University 28
28 University of Melbourne Research Repository 28
31 Singapore Management University SMU Research Data Repository 24
32 SciELO Data 17
33 Humanities Research Data Repository 15
34 De Montfort University DMU Figshare 14
35 RepOD open Data  Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling University of Warsaw 9
36 Nanyang Technological University NTU Research Data Repository 8
36 CDS Centre de Donnes astronomiques de Strasbourg 8
38 CancerData.org 6
39 e-ciencia Datos Consorcio Madroño Universidades de Madrid 5
39 DataverseCAT 5
39 Forschungsdaten-Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover 5
42 Abacus Data Network British Columbia Universities 4
42 The Dataverse Project 4
42 UK Data Archive 4
42 UNIMI Dataverse Università degli studi di Milano  4
46 NIMS Materials Data Repository 3
47 Dataverse University of Pittsburgh 2
47 University of Virginia Dataverse 2
47 University of Essex Research Data Repository 2
50 Data Lincoln University 1
50 MELDATA International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas ICARDA 1
50 Multidisciplinary Oceanic Information SysTem MOIST 1
50 Openforestdata 1
50 Peking University Open Research Data Platform 1
50 Research Data GESIS Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften 1
50 Chinese University of Hong Kong CUHK Research Data Repository 1
50 HKU Data Repository Research Repository  1
50 LINDAT Digital Research Infrastructure for the Language Technologies, Arts and Humanities 1
50 UBIRA eData University of Birmingham eData Repository 1
60 Data Repository of Institute of Economic Research Hitotsubashi University 0
60 Keio University Academic Information Data Linkage Repository 0
60 4TU.ResearchData 0
60 AUSSDA The Austrian Social Science Data Archive 0
60 CaltechDATA 0
60 Centre for Social Sciences Research Documentation Centre Repository 0
60 CIMMYT Research Data & Software Repository Network International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center 0
60 CSIRO Data Access Portal 0
60 Data Repository Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien 0
60 Data SciencesPo 0
60 DataON 0
60 Datashare University of Edinburgh 0
60 DataverseNO 0
60 Datos Primarios en Acceso Abierto de la Ciencia y la Tecnología Argentina DACyTAr 0
60 Dryad 0
60 Duke University Research Data Repository 0
60 EASY 0
60 GigaDB 0
60 Harvard University Dataverse 0
60 ICRISAT Dataverse International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics 0
60 IISH Data Collection International Institute of Social History 0
60 ILC4CLARIN 0
60 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Data Compass 0
60 Macromolecular Christalography RDR 0
60 Mendeley Data 0
60 NASA Open Data Portal 0
60 National Open Access Research Data Archive MIDAS 0
60 Online Data & Information Network for Energy ODIN 0
60 Portal de Datos Abiertos UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 0
60 Repositorio de datos de investigación de la Universidad del Rosario 0
60 Science DataBank 0
60 Social Data Repository 0
60 SOCR Statistics Online Computational Resource 0
60 Tallinna Tehnikaülikool TalTech Data 0
60 Texas (universities) Data Repository 0
60 The Australian (research) Data Archive 0
60 UNC Dataverse North Carolina 0
60 University of South Australia UniSA Research Data Access Portal 0
60 Swedish National Data Service 0