{"ID":2840353,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12966","arxiv_id":"2511.12966","title":"Beyond Citations: A Cross-Domain Metric for Dataset Impact and Shareability","abstract":"The scientific community increasingly relies on open data sharing, yet existing metrics inadequately capture the true impact of datasets as research outputs. Traditional measures, such as the h-index, focus on publications and citations but fail to account for dataset accessibility, reuse, and cross-disciplinary influence. We propose the X-index, a novel author-level metric that quantifies the value of data contributions through a two-step process: (i) computing a dataset-level value score (V-score) that integrates breadth of reuse, FAIRness, citation impact, and transitive reuse depth, and (ii) aggregating V-scores into an author-level X-index. Using datasets from computational social science, medicine, and crisis communication, we validate our approach against expert ratings, achieving a strong correlation. Our results demonstrate that the X-index provides a transparent, scalable, and low-cost framework for assessing data-sharing practices and incentivizing open science. The X-index encourages sustainable data-sharing practices and gives institutions, funders, and platforms a tangible way to acknowledge the lasting influence of research datasets.","short_abstract":"The scientific community increasingly relies on open data sharing, yet existing metrics inadequately capture the true impact of datasets as research outputs. Traditional measures, such as the h-index, focus on publications and citations but fail to account for dataset accessibility, reuse, and cross-disciplinary influe...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12966","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.12966v2","authors":"[\"Smitha Muthya Sudheendra\",\"Zhongxing Zhang\",\"Wenwen Cao\",\"Jisu Huh\",\"Jaideep Srivastava\"]","published":"2025-11-17T04:45:19Z","proceeding":"cs.CY","tasks":"[\"cs.CY\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false}