Tag Archives: Crossref

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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The Initiative for Open Abstracts: Celebrating our first anniversary

Posted on October 6, 2021 by David Shotton

Authors: Ludo Waltman, Bianca Kramer, David Shotton In this blog post, Ludo Waltman, Bianca Kramer, and David Shotton, co-founders with colleagues of the Initiative for Open Abstracts, celebrate the first anniversary of the initiative. On September 24 last year, the … 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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92 million new citations added to COCI

Posted on September 9, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

It’s been a month since the announcement of 1.09 Billion Citations available in the July 2021 release of COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations.   We’re now proud to announce the September 2021 release of COCI, which is based on open references to works with DOIs within the Crossref dump dated August … Continue reading →

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From little acorns . . . A retrospective on OpenCitations

Posted on August 16, 2021 by David Shotton

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 →

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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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