Tag Archives: citation data

The OpenCitations Roadmap is now publicly available on Trello

Posted on March 29, 2022 by Chiara Di Giambattista

Want to keep yourself updated about the ongoing activities of OpenCitations? We have now publicly released the OpenCitations Roadmap, available on Trello.com: https://trello.com/b/RprHYoKL/opencitations The OpenCitations Roadmap consists of a board fulfilled with colour-labelled cards which present the goals so far … Continue reading →

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OpenCitations and EC funding: OpenAIRE Nexus and RISIS2

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Chiara Di Giambattista

The incentives for new OpenCitations innovative solutions Two years ago, in their canonical 2020 QSS paper on OpenCitations, Silvio Peroni and David Shotton anticipated the creation of the new database, OpenCitations Meta, able to “offer a faster and richer service” … Continue reading →

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Five reasons why 2021 has been a great year for OpenCitations

Posted on January 13, 2022 by Chiara Di Giambattista

2021 is just behind us. Since January is “the Monday of the months”, as F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote[1], it’s a good time to take stock of what happened at OpenCitations during the past year. Among the numerous events, achievements … Continue reading →

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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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OpenCitations receives the Open Publishing Award in Open Data

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

“What role does ‘open’ play in making this project special?” This apparently easy, but not banal, question was asked in the Open Publishing Awards nomination form, and at OpenCitations we prefaced our answer to it by stating “For OpenCitations, ‘open’ … Continue reading →

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Coverage of open citation data approaches parity with Web of Science and Scopus

Posted on October 27, 2021 by David Shotton

Guest blog post by Alberto Martín-Martín, Facultad de Comunicación y Documentación, Universidad de Granada, Spain <albertomartin@ugr.es> In this post, as a contribution to Open Access Week, Alberto Martín-Martín shares his comparative analysis of COCI and other sources of open citation … Continue reading →

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Open Access Tage 2021: valuable insights from the libraries in the German-speaking region 

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

On September 27, OpenCitations’ director Silvio Peroni, together with Niels Stern (DOAB/OAPEN) and James MacGregor (PKP), held the online workshop “How Open Infrastructure Benefits Libraries” during the Open Access Tage 2021. Open-Access-Tage (Open Access Days) are the annual central platform for the steadily growing Open Access and … Continue reading →

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About engagement and evanescence: OpenCitations at the Open Science Fair 2021

Posted on September 29, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

Community, governance, and shared goals: these are the key concepts that you would have heard discussed, had you listened in on September 21 at the Open Science Fair 2021 to the sessions entitled “ScholeXplorer and OpenCitations as the new frontier … Continue reading →

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OpenCitations in Five Hundred Words

Posted on September 24, 2021 by David Shotton

Yesterday I gave a lightning talk at the 2021 OASPA Conference, with the title OpenCitations – what does the future hold? The poster accompanying my talk, published on Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526713, is reproduced below. Here is what I said: = … Continue reading →

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Academia’s missing references

Posted on September 23, 2021 by David Shotton

No-one is quite sure of the total number of scholarly publications within the global corpus. Indeed that number will be strongly influenced by the degree to which, in addition to books and journal articles, one includes within the definition of … Continue reading →

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