Practice meets Principle: Tracking Software and Data Citations to Zenodo DOIs

Understand

Data and software citations are crucial for the transparency of research results and for the transmission of credit.

• But they are hard to track, because of the absence of a common citation standard.
• As a consequence, the FORCE11 recently proposed data and software citation principles as guidance for authors.
• Zenodo is recognized for the implementation of DOIs for software on a large scale.