About the Authors

Iratxe Puebla

iratxe.puebla@datacite.org (IP); jean-baptiste.poline@mcgill.ca (JBP)

Affiliation DataCite—International Data Citation Initiative e. V., Hannover, Germany

Giorgio A. Ascoli

Affiliation Center for Neural Informatics, Structures, & Plasticity, College of Engineering and Computing, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America

Jeffrey Blume

Affiliation School of Data Science, University of Virginia, Virginia, United States of America

John Chodacki

Affiliation California Digital Library, University of California, Office of the President, Oakland, California, United States of America

Joshua Finnell

Affiliation Colgate University Libraries, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, United States of America

David N. Kennedy

Affiliation Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bernard Mair

Affiliation Office for Historically Black Universities Affairs, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, Washington, DC, United States of America

Maryann E. Martone

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America

Jamie Wittenberg

Affiliation University Libraries, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Jean-Baptiste Poline

iratxe.puebla@datacite.org (IP); jean-baptiste.poline@mcgill.ca (JBP)

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Competing Interests

We have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: IP is Director of Make Data Count, an initiative that drives development and adoption of open data metrics, and an employee of DataCite, which hosts DataCite Commons and is developing the Data Citation Corpus. GAA is Principal Investigator of NeuroMorpho.Org, an NIH-funded open access database of neural structure. JC and JW are members of the Make Data Count Advisory Committee and the DataCite Board of Directors. MEM is a founder and shareholder in SciCrunch Inc, a tech start up out of UCSD that provides services supporting rigor and reproducibility. DNK is co-director of NITRC (the NeuroImaging Tools and Resources Collaboratory), an NIH-funded software and data repository. Other authors declare no competing interests.