DataCite Annual Report 2024
The DOI registration agency DataCite has published its Annual Report for 2024, which looks back, among other things, on the celebrations of the 15th anniversary of its existence.
DataCite reached 72 million registered DOIs (with 20 million in 2024 alone).
These were resolved 671,232,354 times, or over 21 times every second.
The number of organizations using DataCite services increased by 194 over the past year to a total of 1,557 member organizations.
The registration agency also continued to collaborate with other projects and institutions supporting the development of services around persistent identifiers and open science that improve the functioning of the research ecosystem on a global scale, including: Research Organization Registry (ROR), Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data), International Generic Sample Number (IGSN),Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo), Research Activity Identifier (RAiD), Make Data Count a Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI).
DataCite Annual Member Survey 2024
DataCite also published the results of a survey among its members on types of use and satisfaction with their services and demand for their development and improvement. For members who do want additional features/enhancements, most would like to see metadata enhancements. Requests in this area include integrating long-term preservation information, adapting schemas for different resource types, enhancing citation tracking, and improving metadata precision and completeness. Increased functionality in tools such as DataCite Fabrica and Commons, better interoperability with standards, and expanded API capabilities were also highlighted.
