Why OpenCitations?
Since its foundation in 2010, OpenCitations has been established as a community-guided open infrastructure with the aim of providing access to global scholarly bibliographic and citation data.
OpenCitations is a disruptive and free alternative to proprietary citation services
Quality
It provides an enduring source of comprehensive high-quality scholarly bibliographic and citation metadata
Reusability
Its data is published under a Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Waiver, and may be freely reused for any purpose, including commercial purposes
Integration
It enables integration with complementary sources of open research information
Interoperability
It provides information, both in human-readable form and in interoperable machine-readable Linked Open Data formats
Our services
OpenCitations facilitates free access to scholarly information and indicators for scholars, academic administrators, research funders and other interested parties across the globe.
