« In this paper, we present COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations (http://opencitations.net/index/coci). COCI is the first open citation index created by OpenCitations, in which we have applied the concept of citations as first-class data entities, and it contains more than 445…
« Universities are increasingly evaluated, both internally and externally on the basis of their outputs. Often these are converted to simple, and frequently contested, rankings based on quantitative analysis of those outputs. These rankings can have substantial implications for student and staff recruitment, research income and perceived prestige of a university.…
« Although bibliometrics and library science are older, bibliometric tools were really born about 50 years ago and were only made available to a large audience with the widespread use of the Internet. Although their concrete forms have been largely modified, they are still based today on epistemic and computer foundations…
« This year’s Annual Forum for the LIS-BIBLIOMETRICS mailing list took place at the British Library Knowledge Centre on 29 January 2019, and focused on the topic of ‘Open Metrics and Measuring Openness’. (…)
Unlike most of the other offerings at the Forum, my talk wasn’t about…
« (…) In this paper, we analyse the current availability of open citations data in one particular dataset, namely COCI (the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations; http://opencitations.net/index/coci) provided by OpenCitations. The results of these analyses show a persistent gap in the coverage of the currently available…
« OpenCitations (http://opencitations.net) is a scholarly infrastructure organization dedicated to open scholarship and the publication of open bibliographic and citation data by the use of Semantic Web (Linked Data) technologies, and engaged in advocacy for semantic publishing and open citations [Peroni and Shotton, 2018b]. It provides the OpenCitations Data Model…
« As introduced in a previous blog post, COCI is the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI references, all released as CC0 material. It is our first OpenCitations Index of open citations, in which we have applied the concept of citations as
« L’agence Crossref, partenaire d’OpenEdition pour l’enregistrement des DOI (Digital Object Identifier) attribués aux ressources numériques de ses plateformes, vient de passer le cap des 100 millions de DOI enregistrés. OpenEdition, qui a acquis plus de 200 000 DOI, se félicite de cette réussite qui…
« Les citations sont un instrument privilégié de la recherche bibliographique : le repérage des citations ultérieures d’une publication permet de reconstituer rapidement l’état d’un champ de recherche ou la réception d’une découverte ou d’une théorie scientifique.
Jusqu’en 2017, ces informations étaient concentrées dans de grandes bases fermées telles que…
« The workshop Information
About 500 million open bibliographic citations are available on the web. We invite to this workshop researchers, scholarly publishers, funders, policy makers, and opening citations advocates, interested in the widespread adoption of practises for creation, reuse and improvement of open citation data. (…) »
