Tag Archives: Scholarly citations

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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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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Wikipedia Citations in Wikidata

Posted on July 21, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

The interconnection between Wikipedia and Wikidata is now larger than ever.   The Wikipedia Citations dataset currently includes around 30M citations from Wikipedia pages to a variety of sources – of which 4M are to scientific publication. The increase of the connection with external data services … Continue reading →

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Querying the OpenCitations Corpus

Posted on May 6, 2017 by Silvio Peroni

This post introduce two exemplar queries for interrogating the OpenCitations Corpus. Continue reading →

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Open Citations is dead. Long live OpenCitations.

Posted on March 30, 2017 by David Shotton

In October 2015, I asked Silvio Peroni, my long-term colleague in the development of the SPAR Ontologies, to become Co-Director of the Open Citations Project, and to work with me in taking forward the prototype Open Citations Corpus (OCC), originally … Continue reading →

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