Abstract:

Research data is both the fundamental resource and the outcome of research process in humanities and social sciences. Based on Thomson Reuters’ Data Citation Index, the paper selects five disciplines which include History, Education & Educational research, Demography, Government & Law, Business & Economics as the research objective. Then, it describes and analyzes the distribution characteristics of research data from the perspective of data creation, organization, deposit, publication and citation by statistical analysis, citation analysis and data visualization. The findings of this study show that: 1) data produce is a systematic process. 2) Data organization is a lifecycle process, but the normative level remains to be raised. 3) Data collection development is a cumulative and longterm process. 4）data distribution has a tendency of centralizationdecentralization. 5) 89% of the records have received no citation, and the number of highly cited data is few. Data citation behavior has the authoritative identity phenomenon. At last, it presents some suggestions to promote the development of data management service from the view of data sharing, library data service and data usage.

Keywords: Data citation, Data lifecycle, Data management service, Library, Data Citation Index