BioLINCC

BioLINCC provides open-access sharing of NHLBI-supported biologic specimens and associated study data to enable secondary analyses and reproducibility of biomedical research.

Key Features:

• Open-access data sharing: Provides open accessibility of datasets from observational and interventional NHLBI-supported studies to enable reuse and integration into new research.
• Repository contents: Hosts biological specimens and associated study data from NHLBI-supported studies, totaling 194 datasets as of July 2019.
• Research impact analysis: Supports bibliometric analyses of dataset reuse, including retrieval of publications and computation of citation metrics.

Scientific Applications:

• Secondary analyses: Supported 1,086 published articles using BioLINCC data by October 2019, of which 987 (90.88%) were indexed in Web of Science (WoS).
• Bibliometric evaluation: Enabled assessment of citation impact, with 34,181 total citations by October 2019 and an average of 34.63 citations per publication.
• Dataset reuse assessment: Identified that 59.28% of BioLINCC datasets had not been used for secondary publications as of 2019.

Methodology:

Publication lists were obtained from the repository and supplemented by PubMed searches, and publication characteristics and citation data were analyzed using Web of Science.