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. 2022 Jun 14:11:giac058.
doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giac058.

A decade of GigaScience: What can be learned from half a million RRIDs in the scientific literature?

Anita Bandrowski  1
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A decade of GigaScience: What can be learned from half a million RRIDs in the scientific literature?

Anita Bandrowski. Gigascience. .

Abstract

Research resource identifiers (RRIDs) are persistent unique identifiers for scientific resources used to conduct studies such as reagents and tools. Inclusion of these identifiers into the scientific literature has been demonstrated to improve the reproducibility of papers because resources, like antibodies, are easier to find, making methods easier to reproduce. RRIDs also dramatically reduce the use of problematic resources, such as contaminated cell lines. The addition of RRIDs into a manuscript means that authors have to look up information that they may have previously omitted or confront information about problems that may have been reported about their resources. The use of RRIDs is primarily driven by champion journals, such as GigaScience and others. Although still nascent, this practice lays important groundwork for citation types that can cover non-traditional scholarly output, such as software tools and key reagents; giving authors of various types of tools scholarly credit for their contributions.

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