Indian Contribution to Medicine Datasets: An Analysis
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2023-11-17
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INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Abstract
The registry of research data repositories, re3data.org, documents over 1,400 research data
repositories worldwide, making it the web's largest and most comprehensive online catalog.
The Library and Information Services Department (LIS) of the GFZ German Research Centre
for Geosciences, the Computer and Media Service at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the
Purdue University Libraries, and the KIT Library at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
(KIT) are project partners in re3data.org (The Landscape of Research Data Repositories in
2015: A Re3data Analysis, n.d.). After merging with the American DataBib in 2014, re3data.org
became a DataCite service in 2016. DataCite is a non-profit international organization that
provides a way for researchers to obtain credit and recognition for sharing their research
data (The British Library, n.d.). "Research data" refers to a model of raw statistical or visual
data gathered from necessary sources during a scientific investigation. A massive amount of
data is generated in the medical sciences due to observations, experiments, and clinical
investigations. In medicine, there are 961 listed repositories, divided into 48 sub-categories.
A few registered repositories are noted as closed, and there are also subjects with no currently
listed data repositories. India contributes 2.81% of the total datasets in medicine indexed in
re3data.org with 21 datasets. This study aims at analyzing the Indian raw datasets that
belong to Medicine in re3.org. The availability and accessibility of research data will aid in
discovering new knowledge and developing new approaches for improving research quality.
To advance knowledge, researchers affiliated with institutions and organizations should be
motivated to deposit and incorporate data gathered through their research into institutional
research data repositories or other discipline repositories. There are enormous quantities of
organized public health data emerging in various academic, government, or non-commercial
disciplines, and making these datasets available, especially in the medical discipline, is
extremely necessary to accelerate the research as we live in a world of unforeseeable global
medical emergencies. Moreover, re3data.org can potentially improve and promote the best
data preservation and management practices.
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26th International Symposium, ETD 2023, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 26-28 October, 2023
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India, Medicine datasets, re3data.org