Awards
2026
Certificate of Excellence in Research Infrastructure Leadership
Between 2024 and 2026, members of the OpenCitations team participated in the Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastructures (EMMRI), a programme designed to strengthen organisational competencies and leadership within research infrastructures. The initiative recognises that effective and sustainable research infrastructures depend not only on individual expertise, but on the development of complementary skills across the organisation as a whole. Through this collaborative training model, OpenCitations further invested in staff development, strategic management, and organisational capacity building, contributing to its long-term sustainability and excellence as an open scholarly infrastructure.
At the conclusion of the programme, OpenCitations was awarded the Certificate of Excellence in Research Infrastructure Leadership.
You can learn more about EMMRI and the Certificate of Excellence here: https://emmri.unimib.it/ritrain-certificate-excellence-research-infrastructures/
2021
Open Publishing Awards
In December 2021, during the closing session of the FORCE2021 conference “Joining Forces to Advance the Future of Research Communication” (7-9 December), OpenCitations received the Open Publishing Award in Open Data, as an infrastructure that perfectly represents the open principles, from among the few semantic web and linked open data initiatives currently available in the scholarly communication landscape. The greatest honour for OpenCitations was receiving the following comment given on behalf of the jury panel, which included open source and scholarly communication experts:
“At the time of writing this review, the largest database provided by OpenCitations contains more than 1.23 billion citations. Compiling this database in a license-friendly way is a feat on its own, but combine that with OpenCitations’ persistence (established 11 years ago), their active and consistent involvement with the community, and the number of works that were made possible by their effort (Google Scholar lists 1440 results), it is clear that OpenCitations is one of the fundamental projects in open publishing, specifically in open scientific publishing”.
You can learn more about the Awards and the other projects selected here: Open Publishing Awards 2021.