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Tag Archives: citation data
From little acorns . . . A retrospective on OpenCitations
The initial vision Now that OpenCitations is hosting over one billion freely available scholarly bibliographic citations, this is perhaps an opportune moment to look back to the start of this initiative. A little over eleven years ago, on 24 April … Continue reading
Reflections on the global citation graph
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
Crossing a significant threshold: more than one billion citations now available in COCI!
“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
Posted in Bibliographic references, Citations as First-Class Data Entities, Data publication, open access, Open Citation Identifiers, Open Citations, Semantic Publishing
Tagged citation data, COCI, Crossref, Elsevier, I4OC, Initiative for Open Citations, open access, Open Science, OpenCitations
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OpenCitations at LIBER Annual Conference 2021: ‘How Can Open Infrastructures Support the Role of Research Libraries?’
For the second year, OpenCitations has taken part in the LIBER annual conference. LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) is a network that gathers 440 research libraries, based in more than 40 countries all over the world, with the mission of supporting Europe’s research libraries by highlighting their value to policymakers, … Continue reading
Elsevier endorses DORA and opens its journal article reference lists
We congratulate and thank Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher, for endorsing the DORA Declaration on Research Assessment (https://sfdora.org/), thereby joining the hundreds of other publishers and scientific organizations which have endorsed DORA over the previous eight years, and also … Continue reading
COCI has surpassed 700M citations
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
OpenCitations described
OpenCitations is an infrastructure organization for open scholarship dedicated to the publication of open bibliographic and citation data. We at OpenCitations are proud to announce the publication, in the first issue of Quantitative Science Studies, of a canonical paper in … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliographic references, Citations as First-Class Data Entities, Data publication, open access, Open Citation Identifiers, Open Citations, Open scholarship, Open Science, Uncategorized
Tagged Bibliometrics, citation data, COCI, Crossref, linked data, OCDM, Open Citation Corpus, OpenCitations, QSS, Scientometrics, SCOSS, spar
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The first issue of Quantitative Science Studies
The memorable date 20/02/2020 saw the publication by MIT Press of the first issue of Volume One of a new journal, Quantitative Science Studies (QSS), the official open access journal of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI). QSS’s … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliographic references, open access, Open Citations, Open scholarship
Tagged APC, Bibliometrics, citation data, Elsevier, I4OC, Informetrics, ISSI, Journal flip, QSS, Scientometrics
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Introducing InTRePIDs – In-Text Reference Pointer Identifiers
Rationale Readers of this blog will be familiar with Open Citation Identifiers (OCIs), described in an earlier post and formally defined in [1]. OCIs enable bibliographic citations, treated as first class information entities, to be uniquely identified and referenced, and … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliographic references, Citations as First-Class Data Entities, Open Citation Identifiers, Open Citations
Tagged bibliography, citation, citation data, Citations in Context Corpus, COCI, DOI, InTRePID, InTRePID Resolution Service, linked data, OCI, Open Citation Identifier, OpenCitations, Persistent identifier, PID, references, ``
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