Open Citation: Definition: papers linking to it

figshare · JournalArticle · 2018 · doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6683855

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Research papers in the 480 tracked journals that link to Open Citation: Definition (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6683855), read from their Crossref records: by year, category and journal, the family tree of papers building on one another, and the linked repositories derived from it or that it derives from.

Key findings#

4 papers in the tracked journals link to the figshare dataset Open Citation: Definition in their Crossref records, the first in 2019; most of them (1) in 2024.
By category: Higher Education and Research (4); the journals with the most are Scientometrics (4).
3 of the papers build on one another: a later paper cites an earlier one that also links Open Citation: Definition.

By year#

20192024

Papers linking to Open Citation: Definition by publication year
Year	Papers
2019	1
2020	1
2021	1
2024	1

Journals#

Journals whose papers link to Open Citation: Definition most
Journal	Papers
Scientometrics	4

Family tree#

Each paper sits under the earlier paper it builds on; papers that cite no other paper here start a branch of their own.

Software review: COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations Scientometrics, 2019
- A qualitative and quantitative analysis of open citations to retracted articles: the Wakefield 1998 et al.'s case Scientometrics, 2021 — cites the paper above
- The OpenCitations Index: description of a database providing open citation data Scientometrics, 2024 — cites the paper above

Papers linking to Open Citation: Definition, most cited first
Published	Title	Journal	Authors	Citations	Link
2019-09-14	Software review: COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations	Scientometrics	Ivan Heibi, Silvio Peroni, David M. Shotton	90	cites it
2020-02-22	The practice of self-citations: a longitudinal study	Scientometrics	Silvio Peroni, Paolo Ciancarini, Aldo Gangemi A et al.	32	cites it
2021-08-05	A qualitative and quantitative analysis of open citations to retracted articles: the Wakefield 1998 et al.'s case	Scientometrics	Ivan Heibi, Silvio Peroni	26	cites it
2024-09-28	The OpenCitations Index: description of a database providing open citation data	Scientometrics	Ivan Heibi, Arianna Moretti, Silvio Peroni et al.	13	cites it

How this is measured#

Links are read from each paper's Crossref record as its publisher deposited it: the URLs and repository DOIs in its reference list (the software and data it cites) and its supplementary links (“is-supplemented-by”: its own code or data). A paper that gives its code only in the text, a footnote or a data availability statement is not counted, and some publishers deposit reference lists without their URLs, so every count here is a lower bound. Repository details come from the GitHub REST API (stars, forks, and the repository a fork was made from), the Hugging Face Hub API (likes, downloads, and the base model a model was derived from) and DataCite (Zenodo and other data DOIs, and the GitHub release a Zenodo record archives), read again every month.

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Open Citation: Definition: papers linking to it. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/code/figshare-6683855

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Open Citation: Definition: papers linking to it},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/code/figshare-6683855}},
  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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