Crossref as a source of open bibliographic metadata

Eck, N.J.P. van; Waltman, L.R. (2021)

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Several initiatives have been taken to promote the openly availability of bibliographic metadata of scholarly publications in Crossref. We present an up-to-date overview of the availability of six metadata elements in Crossref: reference lists, abstracts, ORCIDs, author affiliations, funding information, and license information. Our analysis shows that the availability of these metadata elements has improved over time. However, it also shows that many publishers need to make additional efforts to realize full openness of bibliographic metadata. To illustrate the value of open metadata, we use the metadata in Crossref to construct and visualize a large citation network of scholarly journals.

• All authors: Eck, N.J.P. van; Waltman, L.R.
• Editor(s): Glänzel, W.; Heeffer, S.; Chi, P.-S.; Rousseau, R.
• Date: 2021
• Title of host publication: Proceedings of the 18th international conference of the international society for scientometrics and informetrics
• Pages: 1169 - 1174
• ISBN (print): 9789080328228
• Link: https://www.issi-society.org/proceedings/issi_2021/Proceedings%20ISSI%20...