Table 2 Current key elements impeding proper tracking of bioresources use in scientific literature
From: Quantifying the use of bioresources for promoting their sharing in scientific research
Difficulties related to identification and acknowledgement of bioresources | Difficulties encountered with marker papers** |
|---|---|
- multiplicity of sections where bioresources can be acknowledged (Material & Methods, Acknowledgements, References…) | - suitable to refer to one type of bioresource but not for any derived, or secondary bioresources |
- bioresource acknowledgement or citation placed outside the title or abstract in the main paper (or in online supplementary materials) which can therefore only be detected via full-text mining and is not indexed in Pubmed or Web of Science | |
- typing errors or approximation of the bioresource name/identification | |
- multiplicity of names for a given bioresource | |
- cascade use of resources (e.g. several CEPH* Family samples are part of the Hapmap which are themselves part of the 1000 Genome Project) | |
- acknowledgement of persons instead of the bioresource itself | |
-absence of acknowledgement for the bioresource used (negligence) | |
- no standardized way to incentivise researchers to acknowledge properly the bioresource used |