OpenCitations

project aiming to publish open bibliographic citation information in RDF
Organization organization Q29279836
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OpenCitations

Summary

OpenCitations is an organization[1]. OpenCitations ranks in the top 4% of organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • A notable work attributed to OpenCitations is OpenCitations Corpus[3].
  • OpenCitations received the Open Publishing Awards[4].
  • OpenCitations's instance of is recorded as organization[5].
  • OpenCitations's instance of is recorded as project[6].
  • OpenCitations's instance of is recorded as open science infrastructure[7].
  • OpenCitations's founder is recorded as David Shotton[8].
  • OpenCitations is part of Initiative for Open Citations[9].
  • OpenCitations comprises OpenCitations Corpus[10].
  • OpenCitations comprises COCI[11].
  • 2010 marks the founding of OpenCitations[12].
  • OpenCitations's official website is recorded as https://opencitations.net/[13].
  • OpenCitations's sponsor is recorded as Alfred P. Sloan Foundation[14].
  • OpenCitations's director / manager is recorded as Silvio Peroni[15].
  • OpenCitations's director / manager is recorded as David Shotton[16].
  • OpenCitations's described by source is recorded as Bibliographic Scan of Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure[17].
  • OpenCitations's described by source is recorded as Open Science Thesaurus[18].
  • OpenCitations's described by source is recorded as OpenCitations, an infrastructure organization for open scholarship[19].
  • OpenCitations's main Wikidata property is recorded as P3181[20].
  • OpenCitations's different from is recorded as Initiative for Open Citations[21].
  • OpenCitations's uses is recorded as Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies[22].
  • OpenCitations's interested in is recorded as open data[23].
  • OpenCitations's interested in is recorded as open science[24].
  • OpenCitations's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Open access[25].
  • OpenCitations's SPARQL endpoint URL is recorded as http://opencitations.net/sparql[26].
  • OpenCitations's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+3735'}[27].

Body

Founding

OpenCitations's founder is recorded as David Shotton[8]. 2010 marks the founding of OpenCitations[12].

Identity

OpenCitations is part of Initiative for Open Citations[9].

Leadership

Directors / managers include Silvio Peroni[15] and David Shotton[16].

Recognition

OpenCitations received the Open Publishing Awards[4].

Why It Matters

OpenCitations ranks in the top 4% of organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4 views/month).[2] OpenCitations is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

FAQs

What awards did OpenCitations receive?

Honors received include Open Publishing Awards[4].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . Q110684320. wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] . openpublishingawards.org. Retrieved . openpublishingawards.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [9] . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] . opencitations.net. opencitations.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [3] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . opencitations.wordpress.com. opencitations.wordpress.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . opencitations.wordpress.com. opencitations.wordpress.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . data.loterre.fr. Retrieved . data.loterre.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . opencitations.wordpress.com. opencitations.wordpress.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . sparontologies.net. Retrieved . sparontologies.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main wikidata property P3181
    Instance of organization, project, open science infrastructure
    Award received Open Publishing Awards
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