Citation and Impact Tracking

Function definition: Tools that support the citation of data and the tracking of the impact of usage of that data.

Lifecycle stage: Preservation Planning

Tools for this function

Tool	Purpose	ToolStatus
DataCite	DataCite works with data centres to assign persistent identifiers to datasets using the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) infrastructure.
ImpactStory	ImpactStory (previously Total-Impact) allows researchers and organisations to gather a wide range of impact metrics about multiple forms of scholarly output.
Mendeley	Mendeley is a combination web service and desktop application that allows users to create, manage, and share collections of references.
Perma.cc	A tool that captures, stores, plays-back and provides a new URL for web citation. Built and maintained at the Harvard Law School Library.
ReaderMeter	ReaderMeter is a web-based service that compiles readership information about scientific content to create an estimate of the content's community impact.
WebCite	WebCite is an on-demand web archiving service that takes snapshots of Internet-accessible digital objects at the behest of users, storing the data on their own servers and assigning unique identifiers to those instances of the material.