Standards & vocabularies

MIxS specification paper citations

OpenAlex (Yilmaz 2011)

815

citations · 2026-07-20

Gompertz

best-fit model

896

projected 2027

Forecast

Gompertz (S-curve) fitbest fit (AICc)N(t) = L·e^{−e^{−k(t − t₀)}}

carrying capacity L 1.5Ksteepness k 0.125 / yrinflection t₀ 2022R² 0.9982forecast 896 by 2027

Forecast = 10% of the 14-yr record (1.4 yr ahead). Anchored on the latest value; levels off toward L ≈ 1.5K.

Timeline — what shaped the curve

12011-05-08MIxS specification published — Yilmaz et al. published MIMARKS & MIxS in Nature Biotechnology, defining the minimum contextual fields (geography, environment, host, collection) a sequence record should carry.
22016-03-15FAIR Principles — Wilkinson et al. (Sci Data) put rich, standardized, machine-readable metadata at the centre of data stewardship — pulling MIxS-style checklists into the FAIR mainstream.
32023-03-03INSDC spatiotemporal standards — INSDC tightened collection-date & lat/lon reporting and standardised the missing-value vocabulary, reinforcing the MIxS contextual backbone.

Cumulative citations of the MIxS / MIMARKS specification (Yilmaz et al. 2011, Nat Biotechnol) — the adoption proxy for the very metadata standard SeqDesk captures samples against. The FAIR-principles paper ([[fair-citations]]) is the broader companion.

How this is tracked

SourceOpenAlex (Yilmaz 2011)

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Live endpointhttps://api.openalex.org/works?filter=doi:10.1038/nbt.1823&select=id,cited_by_count,updated_date&mailto=chrmnch@icloud.com

Parsejson · results.0.cited_by_count

All data points (18)

Date	citations
2026-07-20	815
2026-07-13	814
2026-07-06	812
2026-06-29	809
2026-01-01	759
2025-01-01	704
2024-01-01	645
2023-01-01	591
2022-01-01	507
2021-01-01	448
2020-01-01	373
2019-01-01	331
2018-01-01	259
2017-01-01	211
2016-01-01	173
2015-01-01	129
2014-01-01	82
2013-01-01	32

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