Theoretical analysis and propositions for "ontology citation"
Biswanath Dutta

TL;DR
This paper provides a theoretical analysis of ontology citation practices, highlighting issues and proposing a standardized template for citing ontologies to improve consistency and recognition in scholarly communication.
Contribution
It offers a thorough analysis of current ontology citation issues and introduces a new citation template to standardize referencing practices.
Findings
Current citation styles do not include ontologies as citable sources
There are unresolved issues regarding what to cite and how to cite ontologies
A proposed citation template aims to standardize ontology referencing
Abstract
Ontology citation, the practice of referring the ontology in a similar fashion the scientific community routinely follows in providing the bibliographic references to other scholarly works, has not received enough attention it supposed to. Interestingly, so far none of the existing standard citation styles (e.g., APA, CMOS, and IEEE) have included ontology as a citable information source in the list of citable information sources such as journal article, book, website, etc. Also, not much work can be found in the literature on this topic though there are various issues and aspects of it that demand a thorough study. For instance, what to cite? Is it the publication that describes the ontology, or the ontology itself? The citation format, style, illustration of motivations of ontology citation, the citation principles, ontology impact factor, citation analysis, and so forth. In this…
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Taxonomy
TopicsSemantic Web and Ontologies · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies · Data Quality and Management
