Category Archives: Semantic Publishing

Reflections on the global citation graph

Posted on August 11, 2021 by David Shotton

In his call for open citations, Dario Taraborelli hailed the scholarly citation graph (in which the nodes (vertices) are individual academic publications and the links (edges) represent bibliographic citations from one publication to another) as one of humankind’s most important … Continue reading →

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Crossing a significant threshold: more than one billion citations now available in COCI!

Posted on August 4, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

“The competitive benefits of closing access to citation data diminish with each new citation released to the public domain, but the benefits of open data remain. Going forward, citation data is almost completely public domain”. With these words, from the … 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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The OpenCitations Enhancement Project – final report

Posted on January 2, 2019 by Silvio Peroni

The OpenCitations Enhancement Project Final report for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Report period: 1st May 2017 – 30 November 2018. Report written: 30th December 2018 Background OpenCitations (http://opencitations.net) is a scholarly infrastructure organization dedicated to open scholarship and the … Continue reading →

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Early adopters of the OpenCitations Data Model

Posted on March 23, 2018 by David Shotton

OpenCitations is very pleased to announce its collaboration with four new scholarly Research and Development projects that are early adopters of the recently updated OpenCitations Data Model, described in this blog post. The four projects are similar, in that they … Continue reading →

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Citations as First-Class Data Entities: The Open Citation Identifier Resolution Service

Posted on March 15, 2018 by David Shotton

Requirements for citations to be treated as first-class data entities In my introductory blog post, I listed five requirements for the treatment of citations as first-class data entities.  The fifth and final of these requirements is that there must be … Continue reading →

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Citations as First-Class Data Entities: Open Citation Identifiers

Posted on March 12, 2018 by David Shotton

Requirements for citations to be treated as First-Class Data Entities In my introductory blog post, I listed five requirements for the treatment of citations as first-class data entities.  The fourth of these requirements is that they must be identifiable using … Continue reading →

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Citations as First-Class Data Entities: The OpenCitations Corpus

Posted on March 4, 2018 by David Shotton

Requirements for citations to be treated as First-Class Data Entities In my introductory blog post, I listed five requirements for the treatment of citations as first-class data entities.  The third of these requirements is that they must be storable, searchable … Continue reading →

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Citations as First-Class Data Entities: The OpenCitations Data Model

Posted on February 25, 2018 by David Shotton

Requirements for citations to be treated as First-Class Data Entities In my introductory blog post, I listed five requirements for the treatment of citations as first-class data entities.  The second of these requirements is that they must have metadata structured … Continue reading →

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Citations as First-Class Data Entities: Citation Descriptions

Posted on February 22, 2018 by David Shotton

Requirements for citations to be treated as First-Class Data Entities In my introductory blog post, I listed five requirements for the treatment of citations as first-class data entities.  The first of these requirements is that they must be definable in … Continue reading →

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