Peer-Reviewed Publications

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Selected past and recent publications

  1. Lister, AL, Taylor-Grant, R, Cannon, M et al. Supporting FAIR Practices In Scholarly Publishing with the Editorial Reference Handbook. Sci Data. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07566-9
  2. Tomlinson H, Beck T, Castillo FD, et al. The FAIR Case for A Coherent Interoperability to support NHS 10 Year Health Plan. Sci Data. 2026 Jul 20;13(1):1204. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07858-0
  3. Tan T, Clark OJ, Derry MJ, et al. Topic classification of synchrotron experiment proposals using the OpenAlex model: enhancing metadata granularity and assessing live service feasibility. J Synchrotron Radiat. 2026 Sep 1;33(Pt 5):1589-1604. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577526006685
  4. D'Anna F, Jareborg N, Jetten M, et al. A research data management (RDM) community for ELIXIR. F1000Res. 2024 Sep 30;13:ELIXIR-230. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.146301.2
  5. Maxwell L, Shreedhar P, Dauga D, et al. FAIR, ethical, and coordinated data sharing for COVID-19 response: a scoping review and cross-sectional survey of COVID-19 data sharing platforms and registries. Lancet Digital Health. 2023 Oct;5(10):e712-e736. doi:10.1016/s2589-7500(23)00129-2
  6. Rocca-Serra P, Gu W, Ioannidis V, et al. The FAIR Cookbook - the essential resource for and by FAIR doers. Scientific Data. 2023 May 19;10(1):292. doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02166-3
  7. Welter D, Rocca-Serra P, Grouès V, et al. The Translational Data Catalog - discoverable biomedical datasets. Scientific Data. 2023 Jul 20;10(1):470. doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02258-0
  8. Welter D, Juty N, Rocca-Serra P, et al. FAIR in action - a flexible framework to guide FAIRification. Scientific Data. 2023 May 19;10(1):291. doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02167-2
  9. Batista D, Gonzalez-Beltran A, Sansone SA, Rocca-Serra P. Machine actionable metadata models. Scientific Data. 2022 Sep 30;9(1):592. doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01707-6
  10. Mirzayi C, Renson A; Genomic Standards Consortium; Massive Analysis and Quality Control Society, et al. Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist. Nature Medicine. 2021 Nov;27(11):1885-1892. doi:10.1038/s41591-021-01552-x
    11. Lee G, Bacon S, Bush I, et al. Barely sufficient practices in scientific computing. Patterns. 2021 Feb 12;2(2):100206. doi:10.1016/j.patter.2021.100206
  11. Rocca-Serra P, Sansone SA. Experiment design driven FAIRification of omics data matrices, an exemplar. Sci Data. 2019 Dec 12;6(1):271. doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0286-0
  12. Viant MR, Ebbels TMD, Beger RD, et al. Use cases, best practice and reporting standards for metabolomics in regulatory toxicology. Nature Communications 10, 3041 (2019). doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10900-y
  13. Amann RI, Baichoo S, Blencowe BJ, et al. Toward unrestricted use of public genomic data. Science 2019 Jan 25;363(6425):350-352. doi:10.1126/science.aaw1280
  14. Sansone SA, McQuilton P, Rocca-Serra P, et al. FAIRsharing, a cohesive community approach to the growth in standards, repositories and policies. Nat Biotech. 2019 April 37;358-367. doi:10.1038/s41587-019-0080-8.
  15. Wilkinson MD, Dumontier M, Sansone SA, et al. Evaluating FAIR maturity through a scalable, automated, community-governed framework. Sci Data. 2019 Sep 20;6(1):174. doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0184-5
  16. Wilkinson MD, Sansone SA, Schultes E, et al. A design framework and exemplar metrics for FAIRness. Sci Data 2018 Jun 26;5. doi:10.1038/sdata.2018.118
  17. Ohno-Machado L, Sansone SA, Alter G, et al. DataMed: Finding useful data across multiple biomedical data repositories. Nat Genet. 2017 May 26;49(6):816-819. doi:10.1038/ng.3864.
  18. Wilkinson MD, Dumontier M, Aalbersberg IJ, et al. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. Sci Data 2016 Mar 15;3. doi:10.1038/sdata.2016.18.
  19. Baker NA, Klemm JD, Harper SL, et al. Standardizing data. Nat Nanotechnol. 2013 Feb;8(2). doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.12.
  20. Sansone SA*, Rocca-Serra P*, Field D, et al. Toward interoperable bioscience data. Nat Genet. 2012 Jan 27;44(2). doi:10.1038/ng.1054.
  21. Field D*, Sansone SA*, Collis A*, et al. Megascience. 'Omics data sharing. Science. 2009 Oct 9;326(5950). doi:10.1126/science.1180598. The * indicates co-first authors.
  22. Taylor CF*, Field D*, Sansone SA*, et al. Promoting coherent minimum reporting guidelines for biological and biomedical investigations: the MIBBI project. Nat Biotechnol. 2008 Aug;26(8). doi:10.1038/nbt.1411. The * indicates co-first and corresponding authors.
  23. Smith B, Ashburner M, Rosse C, et al. The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration. Nat Biotechnol. 2007 Nov;25(11). doi:10.1038/nbt1346.

Invited expert reports, impacting on funders’ data policy