How can I ensure the data collected in Nature Navigator is accurate and reliable
Nature Navigator has been designed to accept any data source. It processes raw data sources from Springer Nature and third party providers in order to provide the information you can find on topic pages. The data source used for a specific topic is subject to individual licence terms. The different available data sources include, but not limited to the following:
- CrossRef
- Dimension from Digital Science
- OpenAlex
- Lens.org
- Internal and proprietary customer data
The raw data on which Nature Navigator insights are based derivative of bibliographic metadata of scientific content. In order to provide meaningful and accurate summaries of current research landscapes we are evaluating and processing metadata from above sources. This metadata does contain information about individuals, e.g. authors of scientific content and their affiliations. You might therefore be part of topic overviews if one or more content pieces have been authored by you.
What meta data attributes does Nature Navigator use?
In order to summarise and analyse content for a specific research landscape, we are processing several different metadata attributes of scientific content, including but not limited to the following:
- Metadata around the publication of content
- DOI
- ISSN
- ISBN
- Journal name
- Book series
- Publisher name
- Publication dates
- Preprint platform
- Metadata around the authorship of content
- Author names (this can be you)
- Author identifiers, like ORCiD
- Contribution status, like being the corresponding author
- Author affiliations
- Metadata describing the content
- Concepts - words from the content that describe it, similar to keywords
- Domain classifications like research field
- Metadata that links the content to other documents and the community
- Citation links to other content
- Reference links to other content
- Local and global impact metrics of individual content, such as online mentions
Why is the above metadata important and relevant?
Scientific fields are shaped and influenced by the research and more importantly the researchers conducting research. In order to summarise how a certain research field or topic is evolving and to be able to predict how it might evolve in future, it is key to understand t who is contributing with what to the research landscape. Our aim is to provide our users with an objective understanding of the state of certain fields.