Crowdsourcing open citations with CROCI -- An analysis of the current status of open citations, and a proposal

2019/02/07 by Ivan Heibi, Silvio Peroni, Heibi, Ivan +3 · 1 citation
Decision Sciences · #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Scientific Computing and Data Management #scientometrics and bibliometrics research

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1902.02534

openalex publication_date 2019/02/07 · openalex created_date 2019/02/21 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

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 open citation data. In order to address this specific issue, we propose a strategy whereby the community (e.g. scholars and publishers) can directly involve themselves in crowdsourcing open citations, by uploading their citation data via the OpenCitations infrastructure into our new index, CROCI, the Crowdsourced Open Citations Index.

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