Academic Journal
Database Commons: A Catalog of Worldwide Biological Databases
| Title: | Database Commons: A Catalog of Worldwide Biological Databases |
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| Authors: | Lina Ma, Dong Zou, Lin Liu, Huma Shireen, Amir A. Abbasi, Alex Bateman, Jingfa Xiao, Wenming Zhao, Yiming Bao, Zhang Zhang |
| Source: | Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics, Vol 21, Iss 5, Pp 1054-1058 (2023) |
| Subject Terms: | Biological database, Catalog, Database Commons, Citation, z-index, Biology (General), QH301-705.5 |
| Publisher Information: | Elsevier, 2023. |
| Publication Year: | 2023 |
| Collection: | LCC:Biology (General) |
| Description: | Biological databases serve as a global fundamental infrastructure for the worldwide scientific community, which dramatically aid the transformation of big data into knowledge discovery and drive significant innovations in a wide range of research fields. Given the rapid data production, biological databases continue to increase in size and importance. To build a catalog of worldwide biological databases, we curate a total of 5825 biological databases from 8931 publications, which are geographically distributed in 72 countries/regions and developed by 1975 institutions (as of September 20, 2022). We further devise a z-index, a novel index to characterize the scientific impact of a database, and rank all these biological databases as well as their hosting institutions and countries in terms of citation and z-index. Consequently, we present a series of statistics and trends of worldwide biological databases, yielding a global perspective to better understand their status and impact for life and health sciences. An up-to-date catalog of worldwide biological databases, as well as their curated meta-information and derived statistics, is publicly available at Database Commons (https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/databasecommons/). |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 1672-0229 |
| Relation: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1672022922001693; https://doaj.org/toc/1672-0229 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.gpb.2022.12.004 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/a1ac5a0892104602a2580e786cdd0d31 |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.1ac5a0892104602a2580e786cdd0d31 |
| ISSN: | 16720229 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.gpb.2022.12.004 |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |