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Location, location, location: utilizing pipelines and services to more effectively georeference the world's biodiversity data

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Bioinformatics, November 2009
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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1 blog
policy
1 policy source

Citations

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Title
Location, location, location: utilizing pipelines and services to more effectively georeference the world's biodiversity data
Published in
BMC Bioinformatics, November 2009
DOI 10.1186/1471-2105-10-s14-s3
Pubmed ID
Authors

Andrew W Hill, Robert Guralnick, Paul Flemons, Reed Beaman, John Wieczorek, Ajay Ranipeta, Vishwas Chavan, David Remsen

Abstract

Increasing the quantity and quality of data is a key goal of biodiversity informatics, leading to increased fitness for use in scientific research and beyond. This goal is impeded by a legacy of geographic locality descriptions associated with biodiversity records that are often heterogeneous and not in a map-ready format. The biodiversity informatics community has developed best practices and tools that provide the means to do retrospective georeferencing (e.g., the BioGeomancer toolkit), a process that converts heterogeneous descriptions into geographic coordinates and a measurement of spatial uncertainty. Even with these methods and tools, data publishers are faced with the immensely time-consuming task of vetting georeferenced localities. Furthermore, it is likely that overlap in georeferencing effort is occurring across data publishers. Solutions are needed that help publishers more effectively georeference their records, verify their quality, and eliminate the duplication of effort across publishers.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 149 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 12 8%
Germany 6 4%
Brazil 4 3%
United Kingdom 3 2%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Other 4 3%
Unknown 115 77%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 37 25%
Student > Ph. D. Student 35 23%
Student > Master 15 10%
Other 14 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 8 5%
Other 32 21%
Unknown 8 5%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 79 53%
Environmental Science 21 14%
Computer Science 16 11%
Social Sciences 5 3%
Engineering 4 3%
Other 15 10%
Unknown 9 6%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 January 2014.
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#3,720,925
of 22,727,570 outputs
Outputs from BMC Bioinformatics
#1,419
of 7,262 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,859
of 93,376 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Bioinformatics
#10
of 58 outputs
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