Bibliographic ReferencesCitations As First-Class Data EntitiesOpen Citation IdentifiersOpen CitationsBibliographycategories.socialScience
Published in OpenCitations blog
Author David M. Shotton
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 are used to identify the >624 million individual citations indexed in the latest release of COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations, as