Statistics

This page gives an overview of the information about works, people and organizations made available via DataCite Commons. Please reach out to DataCite Support for questions or comments.

Data Sources

The following main data sources are used in DataCite Commons for a total of currently 1,082,161 records:

DataCite

298,503 Works
100% of identifiers and metadata.

Crossref

592,081 Works
0.41% of identifiers and metadata. Import is ongoing.

ORCID

88,188 People
100% of identifiers. Personal and employment metadata.

ROR

103,389 Organizations
100% of identifiers and metadata.
Additional information comes from these data sources:
  • Wikidata: inception year, geolocation and Twitter account for organizations
  • Unpaywall: download link for Open Access content via Crossref

Works

DataCite Commons currently includes 890,584 works, with identifiers and metadata provided by DataCite and Crossref. For the three major work types publication, dataset and software, the respective numbers by publication year are shown below.

641,845 Publications

130,978 Datasets

3,680 Software

302,128 out of all 891,307 (33.90%) works have been cited at least once, including 1.49% of works registered with DataCite, and 50.20% of works registered with Crossref.

300,534 (46.82%) Cited Publications

868 (0.66%) Cited Datasets

1 (0.03%) Cited Software

People

DataCite Commons includes all 88,188 ORCID identifiers, and personal and employment metadata. This information is retrieved live from the ORCID REST API, the respective numbers by registration year are shown below.

88,188 People

161,997 out of all 891,307 (18.18%) works have been claimed (connected) to at least one ORCID record, including 27.06% of works registered with DataCite, and 13.72% of works registered with Crossref.

86,933 (13.54%) Claimed Publications

6,419 (4.90%) Claimed Datasets

2,448 (66.52%) Claimed Software

Organizations

DataCite Commons includes all 103,389 Research Organization Registry (ROR) identifiers and metadata. This information is retrieved live from the ROR REST API, the respective numbers by registration year are shown below.

103,389 Organizations

205,362 out of all 891,307 (23.04%) works are connected with at least one organization via ROR ID or Crossref Funder ID, including 53.62% of works registered with DataCite, and 7.65% of works registered with Crossref.

67,885 (10.58%) Connected Publications

40,670 (31.05%) Connected Datasets

2,507 (68.13%) Connected Software