Make Data Count is an initiative that promotes open data metrics to enable the evaluation and reward of research data reuse and impact. 

Our vision is to make it possible for research data to be valued research outputs across scholarly activities, evaluation, and communications.

While there has been an increasing interest in research data and the importance of data sharing in recent years, we lack standardized, adopted ways to evaluate the impact of open data across the research ecosystem. We are thus lacking the means to complete meaningful evaluations that can lead to credit for individual researchers, incentives for data sharing, and an understanding of how open data advances discoveries.

To enable the evaluation of data usage, Make Data Count drives the development of community-led transparent and meaningful open data metrics. The initiative has three main areas of focus: 

1. Open infrastructure to enable the evaluation of data reuse
2. Outreach to drive awareness and adoption of open data metrics
3. Evidence on the reuse and impact of open data through collaboration with bibliometricians