Slides from the conference Force17 Berlin, 25-27 October 2017. Until recently, reference lists were hidden at the end of articles, locked up in libraries and left for dead. But the references of an article contain a wealth of contextual information on how the hypothesis and interpretation of results evolved and fit into the scholarly record. The tangled paths of citations track the genealogy of ideas, and through reference lists one can see methods, theories, and ideologies introduced and die away. And (unfortunately) citations are often used as a measure of how important a researcher or research article is – they are, therefore, the bread and butter of research careers. New initiatives such at the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) are starting to unlock this knowledge, along with a growing consensus that citations are metadata and therefore should be freely accessible via Crossref, regardless of article license type. ScienceOpen has recently added 100 million citation connections between articles, and uses its powerful search engine to expose this knowledge to researchers for a richer discovery experience. This enables us to provide users with tools to track their own article citations through time (for free), trace citation networks, discover similar articles, discover highly-cited articles in their research field, sort searches by citations, and ultimately create a vast, contextual citation-based network for an intelligent search and discovery experience. Explore in this session the possibilities of and limitations on open citations and brainstorm ideas for technological solutions, publisher outreach and researcher engagement for a future with 100% open citations.
1. 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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2. ScienceOpen is a freely-accessible,
interactive search and discovery platform
connecting and exposing metadata.
3. # oat17 @Science_Open @SDawsonBerlin
Scholarly articles in context: ScienceOpen
search/discovery platform
35 million research article records
17 million authors
25thousand journals
4. So how to make sense of 35 million articles?
Open Citations #FORCE17 @Science_Open
@SDawsonBerlin
Filter:
• Open Access
• Preprint
• Date
• Affiliation
• Keywords
• Discipline
• Validation
• Source
• Content type
• Journal
Sort:
• Citations
• Altmetric Score
• Date
• Usage
5. Citations trace the geneology of an idea
and build the contextual framework of a
scholarly article.
14. Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC)
#Force2017 @Science_Open @SDawsonBerlin
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).
Michael Coghlan, Flickr CC BY-SA
15. Making citations
part of the open,
machine-readable
metadata anchored
with persistent
identifiers in
Crossref will result
in better
discoverability for
all.
Scott Lynch, Bankey, Flickr_CC BY
16. 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: Stephanie.Dawson@ScienceOpen.com
Twitter: @Science_Open, @SDawsonBerlin
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ScienceOpen
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Editor's Notes
Journals are a place to demonstrate the results of peer review.
ScienceOpen Collections provide these functions beyond the limits and bias of individual publishers or journals
ScienceOpen Collections provide these functions beyond the limits and bias of individual publishers or journals
ScienceOpen Collections provide these functions beyond the limits and bias of individual publishers or journals
ScienceOpen Collections provide these functions beyond the limits and bias of individual publishers or journals
ScienceOpen Collections provide these functions beyond the limits and bias of individual publishers or journals
Journals are a place to demonstrate the results of peer review.
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