Citation

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Best practice of data citation
PANGAEA publishes data similar to scientific journal publications. And as such, published data sets have to be cited in a similar matter. A data citation should contain:
 * the authors (creators)
 * the publication year
 * the dataset title
 * the publisher
 * a unique persistent identifier (e.g. a DOI)

The full data citation of each referenced data set should be included in the reference list of any publication citing the data. For the general structure, we follow the DataCite recommendations:

''Creator (PublicationYear): Title. Publisher (PANGAEA). Identifier (DOI)''

On the landing page of each data set, the suggested citation of the data set is displayed at the top, e.g. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.912021:

„Timofeeva, Anna; Smolyanitsky, Vasily; Bessonov, Vladimir; Petrovskiy, Tomash (2020): Special sea ice observations aboard Akademik Fedorov MOSAiC leg 1, 2019-09-25 to 2019-10-20. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.912021“

If the data publication is not related to a journal article, it is possible to in include the Institution as a source of the data. It will appear in the suggested citation:

''Creator (PublicationYear): Title. Institution. Publisher (PANGAEA). Identifier (DOI)''

As an example, see https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.924050:

„Burkhardt, Elke (2020): Whale sightings during Polarstern cruise PS95.1 (ANT-XXXI/1.1). Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.924050“

Publication of data in PANGAEA
After technical review by the curator, import and approval of the author/PI, a dataset is set to status published and appears as citable on the Internet. Upon publication of a data set, the DOI registration is initiated.

This process is finalized after 28 days. During this time, the data set can still be modified. However, after finalizing the DOI registration, the data set is published and cannot be changed anymore. Any changes to the dataset would be analougous to an erratum of a journal article.

Small adjustments, as the correction of small mistakes or typos, can still occur and are displayed as metadata „dataset history“, both on the data set landing page and the downloaded data set. As an example see https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.882624.