Table 7. Percentage of papers that check aspects of data quality for online occurrence data—Separated by the six top uses of these databases.
Nine data types with the lowest percentages were removed from table. The top data type for each research use is bolded, and percentage values above 10% are highlighted yellow (10–29%), orange (30–49%), and red (>50%).
| Data Quality Check | Species Distribution | Diversity/ Population | Data Paper | Taxonomy | Conservation | Data Quality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spatial | 28 | 27 | 26 | 9 | 29 | 40 |
| Taxonomic | 27 | 48 | 48 | 56 | 40 | 40 |
| Spatial Bias | 24 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 29 |
| Identification | 21 | 14 | 38 | 40 | 9 | 18 |
| Exclusion | 19 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 9 |
| Effort | 14 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 12 | 25 |
| Precision | 9 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 15 |
| Outliers | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| Temporal Bias | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Temporal | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| Environmental Bias | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Taxonomic Bias | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Detection | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |