Paper Info
Title
Mining Open Government Data Used in Scientific Research.
Abstract
In the following paper, we describe results from mining citations, mentions, and links to open government data (OGD) in peerreviewed literature. We inductively develop a method for categorizing how OGD are used by different research communities, and provide descriptive statistics about the publication years, publication outlets, and OGD sources. Our results demonstrate that, 1. The use of OGD in research is steadily increasing from 2009 to 2016; 2. Researchers use OGD from 96 different open government data portals, with data. gov. uk and data. gov being the most frequent sources; and, 3. Contrary to previous findings, we provide evidence suggesting that OGD from developing nations, notably India and Kenya, are being frequently used to fuel scientific discoveries. The findings of this paper contribute to ongoing research agendas aimed at tracking the impact of open government data initiatives, and provides an initial description of how open government data are valuable to diverse scientific research communities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-3-319-78105-1_34
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Open data,Literature mining,Research policy E-government
Conference
10766
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
8
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yan An111.71
Nicholas M. Weber2868.91