updating BIDS impact page (#550)

Co-authored-by: Remi Gau <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: christinerogers <[email protected]>

Author: 3 people

docs/impact/index.md

@@ -1,48 +1,46 @@
-# Impact
+# BIDS Impact
+
+The Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) is an open global community driving the 
+standardization of neuroscience data across a broad and growing range of modalities 
+and health research disciplines. First released in June 2016, it is supported by a 
+worldwide research network and endorsed by organizations like the International 
+Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility ([INCF](https://www.incf.org/)).
+
+BIDS encompasses:
+
+- Over 40 domain-specific and modality-specific technical specifications across
+scientific and technical domains.
+- 100+ sample data models for BIDS specifications in 
+[bids-examples](https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-examples). Read more about
+the [BIDS specification](https://bids-specification.readthedocs.io/en/stable/).
+- 2000 open datasets across repositories including 
+[OpenNeuro](https://www.openneuro.org). Read more about [BIDS Datasets](/docs/datasets/index.md).
+- Open software conversion and analytics tools, and global infrastructure for
+collaborating on emerging standards in neuroscience 
+[Poldrack, et al, 2024](https://direct.mit.edu/imag/article/doi/10.1162/imag_a_00103/119672/The-past-present-and-future-of-the-brain-imaging).
+- ~30,000 annual website visits from a very large community of neuroscience researchers 
+actively consulting the BIDS specifications (April 2023-24).
+- Over 300 BIDS contributors currently supporting and maintaining BIDS community 
+resources and tools.
+- Open working processes through online collaborative tools including GitHub, 
+GitHub Pages, ReadTheDocs, Google Docs, and OSF.
+  
+The BIDS core steering and maintainers groups work with the community to optimize open 
+adherence to FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable, 
+[Wilkinson, et al, 2016](https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618)) and to actively 
+lower barriers to adoption.
 
-This document intends to convey how the BIDS Steering and Maintainers Group can
-support your proposed BIDS grant. In an effort to express the impact of BIDS in
-the brain imaging community, we have shared several of our traffic metrics.
-
-## How the BIDS team can help you
-
-If you are in the process of putting together a grant, **please email/message
-the pillar lead** that is most closely associated with your proposed grant so we
-may help support this. Our organization is structured into 3 pillars: standard,
-tools, and collaboration.
-
-The respective leads are:
-
--   Stefan Appelhoff ([[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])),
--   Chris Markiewicz ([[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]))
-
-Our range of support covers activities such as: meeting with the Steering and
-Maintainers Groups to assisting with connecting you with other BIDS grant
-writers or related initiatives to receiving a letter of support from the
-Steering Group.
-
-Regarding **requesting a letter of support** - please submit a drafted letter of
-support to the collaboration lead (???) so we may review internally.
-
-Please include how you plan on giving back to the BIDS community. The primary
-mechanism is to support a member of your team to become a BIDS Maintainer.
-Letters of support are approved by the Steering Group. This process may take 2-4
-weeks to complete.
-
-We kindly ask you to please **share your grant online** - successful or not.
-This will signal to the rest of the community what avenues we have pursued and
-what our fellow colleagues are planning on doing next. These can be grants that
-directly extend our support into a new domain, grants that help BIDS (for example
-OpenNeuro), or unsuccessful grant applications.
-
-For example, please find our [NIH-R24 Brain Initiative BIDS-Derivatives grant](https://osf.io/c3dgx/).
-
-A listing of the previous grants can be found [here](../collaboration/acknowledgments.md)
-
-## dashboards
+## 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](https://openneuro.org/) 
+and the number of publicly available BIDS datasets continues to grow every year. 
+
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 ### Citation Count
 
-BIDS references are  centralized in a [zotero group](https://www.zotero.org/groups/5111637/bids)
-
-You can also find them [in the specification](https://bids-specification.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html#citing-bids)
+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](https://www.zotero.org/groups/5111637/bids)
 
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 ### 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          | ![GitHub Repo stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/nipreps/fmriprep)                 |
+| mriqc             | ![GitHub Repo stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/nipreps/mriqc)                    |
 | bids-standard     | ![GitHub Repo stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/bids-standard/bids-specification) |
 | bids-starter-kit  | ![GitHub Repo stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/bids-standard/bids-starter-kit)   |
-| bids-validator    | ![GitHub Repo stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/bids-standard/bids-validator)     |
 | pybids            | ![GitHub Repo stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/bids-standard/pybids)             |
+| qsiprep           | ![GitHub Repo stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/PennLINC/qsiprep)                 |
 | bids-matlab       | ![GitHub Repo stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/bids-standard/bids-matlab)        |
 | statistical model | ![GitHub Repo stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/bids-standard/stats-models)       |
-| fmriprep          | ![GitHub Repo stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/nipreps/fmriprep)                 |
-| mriqc             | ![GitHub Repo stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/nipreps/mriqc)                    |
-| qsiprep           | ![GitHub Repo stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/PennLINC/qsiprep)                 |
+| bids-validator    | ![GitHub Repo stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/bids-standard/bids-validator)     |
 
 ### Downloads
 
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 | bids-schema       | ![PyPI - Downloads](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/bidsschematools)                                                      |
 | statistical model | ![PyPI - Downloads](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/bsmschema)                                                            |
 
-For the number of docker pulls of the BIDS apps, please check the
+For the number of docker pulls of specific BIDS apps, please check the
 [BIDS app dashboard](https://bids-website.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools/bids-apps.html).
 
 ### Contributors
@@ -94,6 +97,9 @@ Our list of contributors are captured in our
 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.
+
 | repository        | all-contributors                                                                                                                  | github                                                                                            |
 | ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
 | bids-standard     | ![GitHub contributors (via allcontributors.org)](https://img.shields.io/github/all-contributors/bids-standard/bids-specification) | ![GitHub Repo stars](https://img.shields.io/github/contributors/bids-standard/bids-specification) |
@@ -144,25 +150,32 @@ github-dependents-info --repo bids-standard/pybids --badgemarkdownfile ./dashboa
 | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
 | pybids     | [![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Used%20by&message=596&color=informational&logo=slickpic)](https://github.com/bids-standard/pybids/network/dependents) |
 
-## Measuring BIDS Impact
+## BIDS History
 
-### Impact summary
+Since its origin, the BIDS standard has revolutionized the way in which neuroimaging
+research is done. The origin of the BIDS standard is commonly traced back to 2014, 
+when a social media post ignited a deeper discussion about a new way of sharing 
+data, that would ultimately lead to a set of standards that would improve scientific 
+collaboration efforts. 
 
-Since its origin, the BIDS has revolutionized the way in which neuroimaging
-research is done.
+Following this initial discussion (and on the shoulders of many many volunteer hours 
+by maintainers and the community at large) the BIDS standard saw significant adoption 
+in the neuroimaging research landscape and continues to expand every day. A more complete 
+history and discussion about the future of the BIDS landscape can be found in this 
+[recent publication](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10516110/).
 
-~??? users visiting the website, and ~??? users exploring the BIDS
-Specification, over the past ??? months.
+The BIDS standard continues to be adopted by a larger share of the community each year. 
+We have seen a large and growing number of visitors to the BIDS website. A large number of
+BIDS users also continue to explore the BIDS Specification and contribute to the community every month. 
 
-Currently, ???
-[reported](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aySjPpEGGQwFcOavkQdcvk2t2UMXt_zoTzWLWUmq20M/edit#gid=0)
-centers, institutes and databases around the world that have implemented BIDS as
-their organizational structure.
+We also document centers, institutes, and databases around the world that have implemented BIDS as
+their organizational structure. While the list continues to grow, an initial list of centers and the associated
+BIDS initiatives or database can be found 
+[here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aySjPpEGGQwFcOavkQdcvk2t2UMXt_zoTzWLWUmq20M/edit#gid=0).
 
 ### Website and Specification traffic dashboards
 
-In order to measure the volume of traffic to our
-website and the
+In order to measure the volume of traffic to our website and the
 [ReadTheDocs rendering of the specification](https://bids-specification.readthedocs.io/en/stable/),
 we utilize Google Analytics.
 
@@ -174,7 +187,8 @@ For visualizing our metrics, we have put together 2 dashboards:
 The default time period is set to the past 6 months. This can be changed by
 adjusting the time period in the upper left corner. Please feel free to use any
 of these figures in your grant! If there are additional statistics not currently
-conveyed, please reach out to (???).
+conveyed, please reach out to or the BIDS maintainers via a GitHub issue, or by email
+ ([[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])).
 
 ### BIDS usage
 
@@ -190,6 +204,8 @@ that have implemented BIDS as their organizational structure.
 
 ### Neurostars
 
+We also track the interest and usage of the BIDS standard via discussions on Neurostars 
+to help us estimate trends in usage. Below is a snapshot as of ??? (date).  
 <!--
 TODO add automation to update every 6 months
 -->
@@ -215,6 +231,44 @@ As of July 1, 2020, we have 183 people signed up for our
 [BIDS email list](https://forms.gle/JFo2aEkYbKY4EbmE6) and 412 members on our
 [google group](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bids-discussion).
 
+
+## How the BIDS team can help you
+
+If you are in the process of putting together a grant, **please email/message
+the pillar lead** that is most closely associated with your proposed grant or the 
+BIDS maintainers email ([[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])) 
+so we may help support this. Our organization is structured into 3 pillars: standard,
+tools, and collaboration.
+
+Our range of support covers activities such as: meeting with the Steering and
+Maintainers Groups to assisting with connecting you with other BIDS grant
+writers or related initiatives to receiving a letter of support from the
+Steering Group.
+
+Regarding **requesting a letter of support** - please submit a drafted letter of
+support to the collaboration lead or the BIDS maintainers email 
+([[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])) so we may review internally.
+
+Please include how you plan on giving back to the BIDS community. The primary
+mechanism is to support a member of your team to become a BIDS Maintainer.
+Letters of support are approved by the Steering Group. This process may take 2-4
+weeks to complete.
+
+We kindly ask you to please **share your grant online** - successful or not.
+This will signal to the rest of the community what avenues we have pursued and
+what our fellow colleagues are planning on doing next. These can be grants that
+directly extend our support into a new domain, grants that help BIDS (for example
+OpenNeuro), or unsuccessful grant applications.
+
+For example, please find our [NIH-R24 Brain Initiative BIDS-Derivatives grant](https://osf.io/c3dgx/).
+
+A listing of the previous grants can be found [here](../collaboration/acknowledgments.md)
+
+## Citing BIDS in your project 
+You can find information on citing BIDS standards for specific modalities and 
+citing BIDS in general 
+[in the specification](https://bids-specification.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html#citing-bids)
+
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