making open citations work / scienceopen

10/30/2017Author: Stephanie Dawson; License: CC BY Open Citations

Making Open Citations Work:

Case Study ScienceOpen

Force17, Berlin 25-27 October 2017

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ScienceOpen is a freely-accessible,

interactive search and discovery platform

connecting and exposing metadata.

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Scholarly articles in context: ScienceOpen

search/discovery platform

35 million research article records

17 million authors

25 thousand journals

So how to make sense of 35 million articles?

Open Citations #FORCE17 @Science_Open

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Filter:• Open Access

• Preprint

• Date

• Affiliation

• Keywords

• Discipline

• Validation

• Source

• Content type

• Journal

Sort:• Citations

• Altmetric Score

• Date

• Usage

Citations trace the geneology of an idea

and build the contextual framework of a

scholarly article.

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Sort your search results by citation

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Add a filter – Date, Open Access,

Affiliation…

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Export your results, cite and repeat!


Sort reference lists by citation and more


Sort and search within collections

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ORCID integration: Sort publications by

citations, Altmetric score, usage, date


Personal statistics: track citations over time

Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC)


How many citations are open today?

As of June 2017, the fraction of publications with open references has grown from 1% to more than 45% out of the nearly 35 million articles with references deposited with Crossref (to date).

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Making citationspart of the open, machine-readablemetadata anchoredwith persistent identifiers in Crossref will resultin betterdiscoverability forall.

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We are your team for

As an aggregator of information,

ScienceOpen will continue to open up,

share, add to and explore the context

of scholarly research in support of open knowledge goals. Join us!

Contact: [email protected]: @Science_Open, @SDawsonBerlin

Facebook: www.facebook.com/ScienceOpen

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making open citations work / scienceopen

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