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Two years of explicit CiTO annotations
Citations are an essential aspect of research communication and have become the basis of many evaluation metrics in the academic world. Some see citation counts as a mark of scientific impact or even quality, but in reality the reasons for citing other work are manifold which makes the interpretatio...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9897605/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36737837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13321-023-00683-2 |
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description | Citations are an essential aspect of research communication and have become the basis of many evaluation metrics in the academic world. Some see citation counts as a mark of scientific impact or even quality, but in reality the reasons for citing other work are manifold which makes the interpretation more complicated than a single citation count can reflect. Two years ago, the Journal of Cheminformatics proposed the CiTO Pilot for the adoption of a practice of annotating citations with their citation intentions. Basically, when you cite a journal article or dataset (or any other source), you also explain why specifically you cite that source. Particularly, the agreement and disagreement and reuse of methods and data are of interest. This article explores what happened after the launch of the pilot. We summarize how authors in the Journal of Cheminformatics used the pilot, shows citation annotations are distributed with Wikidata, visualized with Scholia, discusses adoption outside BMC, and finally present some thoughts on what needs to happen next. |
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spelling | pubmed-98976052023-02-05 Two years of explicit CiTO annotations Willighagen, Egon J Cheminform Correspondence Citations are an essential aspect of research communication and have become the basis of many evaluation metrics in the academic world. Some see citation counts as a mark of scientific impact or even quality, but in reality the reasons for citing other work are manifold which makes the interpretation more complicated than a single citation count can reflect. Two years ago, the Journal of Cheminformatics proposed the CiTO Pilot for the adoption of a practice of annotating citations with their citation intentions. Basically, when you cite a journal article or dataset (or any other source), you also explain why specifically you cite that source. Particularly, the agreement and disagreement and reuse of methods and data are of interest. This article explores what happened after the launch of the pilot. We summarize how authors in the Journal of Cheminformatics used the pilot, shows citation annotations are distributed with Wikidata, visualized with Scholia, discusses adoption outside BMC, and finally present some thoughts on what needs to happen next. Springer International Publishing 2023-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9897605/ /pubmed/36737837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13321-023-00683-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Correspondence Willighagen, Egon Two years of explicit CiTO annotations |
title | Two years of explicit CiTO annotations |
title_full | Two years of explicit CiTO annotations |
title_fullStr | Two years of explicit CiTO annotations |
title_full_unstemmed | Two years of explicit CiTO annotations |
title_short | Two years of explicit CiTO annotations |
title_sort | two years of explicit cito annotations |
topic | Correspondence |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9897605/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36737837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13321-023-00683-2 |
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