Author Archives: Silvio Peroni

Open citations in Informatics: current status and lines of research

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Silvio Peroni

This post was first published on QWERTY: musings from the rabbit hole, a blog by Silvio Peroni A few months ago, I was invited to have a talk at the European Computer Science Symposium on an aspect of my research I particularly care about, that … Continue reading →

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The OpenCitations team is growing – announcing three new appointments!

Posted on July 30, 2021 by Silvio Peroni

This is a summer of great news for OpenCitations. Thanks to the generous support received from the scholarly community during the first year of SCOSS adoption, we’re happy to announce the appointment of three new colleagues to work for OpenCitations at the Research Centre for Open Scholarly Metadata (University of Bologna).   Here’s some information about their backgrounds, … Continue reading →

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New research fellowship position to work on the EOSC

Posted on February 23, 2021 by Silvio Peroni

We now seek applicants for a new three-year research fellowship to be held from March 2021, for which the application closing deadline is 7 February 2021. Plan: to strengthen the current technical and computational infrastructure. Continue reading →

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Seeking applicants for three-year research fellowship position

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Silvio Peroni

We now seek applicants for a new three-year research fellowship to be held from March 2021, for which the application closing deadline is 7 February 2021. Plan: to strengthen the current technical and computational infrastructure. Continue reading →

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More than 733M citations now available in COCI

Posted on September 7, 2020 by Silvio Peroni

We have published the bi-monthly release of COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations. In this latest release (dated 6 September 2020), we extended COCI with more than 11 million additional citations. Now, COCI contains more than 733 million DOI-to-DOI citation links between more than 59.4 million bibliographic entities. Continue reading →

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OpenCitations updates: interviews, outreach, research positions, citations

Posted on July 4, 2020 by Silvio Peroni

Several things and events happened during the past month and a half which involved us directly as a participant. Here we introduce some of the most significant ones: a) our interview during a Fireside Chat at the Open Publishing Fest; b) the SCOSS presentation of a poster about us during LIBER 2020; c) the two new short-term open positions (application deadline: 23 July 2020) for our Wellcome Trust funded project; d) the new release of COCI bringing the overall amount of open citations available in our dataset to more than 721 million. Continue reading →

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COCI has surpassed 700M citations

Posted on May 13, 2020 by Silvio Peroni

We are excited to share that COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations, was on 12 May 2020 extended with more than 47 million additional citations, and has reached a total number of more than 702 million DOI-to-DOI citation links between more than 58 million bibliographic entities. Continue reading →

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Announcing the Research Centre for Open Scholarly Metadata and the International Advisory Board for OpenCitations

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Silvio Peroni

OpenCitations is managed by the newly formed Research Centre for Open Scholarly Metadata at the University of Bologna. The new International Advisory Board for OpenCitations is formally part of the Research Centre for Open Scholarly Metadata. The Board has been created to assist the Directors of OpenCitations by providing stakeholder community input that will guide the future activities and direction of OpenCitations. Continue reading →

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Additional 31 million citations in COCI

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Silvio Peroni

COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations, has just been extended with more than 31 million additional citations. Continue reading →

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The French National Fund for Open Science supports OpenCitations

Posted on March 10, 2020 by Silvio Peroni

The FNSO is contributing € 250,000, which is 16.3% of the amount that was requested under SCOSS and is committing to a political and technical partnership with OpenCitations. Continue reading →

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