Measuring BIDS Impact

Datasets

Over the years, the number of shared datasets available to the public has greatly increased. At its heart, adoption of the BIDS standard across datasets aids in the sharing of data and collaboration of research through the standardization of descriptive files names and the organization of data. BIDS organized datasets are available through public repositories such as Openneuro.org and the number of publicly available BIDS datasets continues to grow every year.

Citation Count

As the adoption of the BIDS standard across neuroimaging datasets has grown, so have citations for work that uses BIDS data and BIDS apps. To aid in searching for publications relevant to the BIDS standard, we have included some examples of BIDS references that are centralized in a zotero group

GitHub stars

GitHub stars quantify the number of users that have marked a repository as a favorite and have chosen to follow the changes made to that repository. Below is a table of GitHub repos that are associated with the BIDS standard and their star count. By tracking repo interest via GitHub stars, we can quantify which BIDS-associated tools are of the highest interest to the research community.

repository	stars
fmriprep
mriqc
bids-standard
bids-starter-kit
pybids
qsiprep
bids-matlab
statistical model
bids-validator

Downloads

package	downloads
bids-validator
pybids
bids-schema
statistical model

For the number of docker pulls of specific BIDS apps, please check the BIDS app dashboard.

Contributors

Our list of contributors are captured in our contributor appendix. We update the contributor appendix every specification release. As of July 2023, we have over 300 credited contributors.

The table below provides a brief account of the number of contributors per repository. Estimated demographics and affiliations of contributors is also provided below.