OpenCitations, an infrastructure organization for open scholarship
Silvio Peroni, David Shotton

TL;DR
OpenCitations provides an open, semantic web-based infrastructure for citation data, enhancing transparency, reproducibility, and accessibility in scholarly research through open datasets, tools, and services.
Contribution
It introduces a comprehensive open infrastructure for citation data using Semantic Web technologies, including datasets, ontologies, and APIs, as a disruptive alternative to proprietary indexes.
Findings
Over 445 million citations in COCI index
OpenCitations datasets are openly available in RDF format
Tools support searching, browsing, and API access to citation data
Abstract
OpenCitations is an infrastructure organization for open scholarship dedicated to the publication of open citation data as Linked Open Data using Semantic Web technologies, thereby providing a disruptive alternative to traditional proprietary citation indexes. Open citation data are valuable for bibliometric analysis, increasing the reproducibility of large-scale analyses by enabling publication of the source data. Following brief introductions to the development and benefits of open scholarship and to Semantic Web technologies, this paper describes OpenCitations and its datasets, tools, services and activities. These include the OpenCitations Data Model; the SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies; OpenCitations' open software of generic applicability for searching, browsing and providing REST APIs over RDF triplestores; Open Citation Identifiers (OCIs) and the…
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