In 2021, the three major federal granting agencies in Canada published the Tri-Agency RDM Policy, which phased in a requirement for grant recipients “to deposit into a digital repository all digital research data, metadata and code that directly support the research conclusions in journal publications and pre-prints that arise from agency-supported research”. Currently, there is a high level of variation among researchers in different disciplines regarding norms and practices related to publishing data. This 2-phase research project addresses the questions of where researchers of the department of Natural Resources Science (NRS), a large multidisciplinary department of McGill’s Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, publish and to what extent the data sharing policy of these journals comply with the Tri-Agency RDM policy. This proposal is for the first phase of the project, which consists of a bibliometrics analysis to understand the publishing patterns of NRS researchers. It will present their research output and its citation characteristics over a 10-year period (2010-2020) using four databases (Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus, Cab Abstracts and Google Scholar). The author examined the type of material NRS researchers publish, identified a core set of journals in which researchers publish, and the degree of openness of their articles. The type of materials cited, the age of the references, which journals are most cited and their publishers, and which journals are available in the collection will also be discussed. Analyzing NRS researchers’ publications through a bibliometrics study will allow the author to identify their publishing patterns, gather data for collection management decisions, and will inform the second phase of the project, which will analyze the data sharing policy of the core set of journals identified in this first phase.