Initiative for Open Citations

collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data
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Initiative for Open Citations

Summary

Initiative for Open Citations is an organization[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Initiative for Open Citations's image is recorded as I4OC logo.svg[3].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's instance of is recorded as organization[4].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's founder is recorded as OpenCitations[5].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's founder is recorded as Wikimedia Foundation[6].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's founder is recorded as Public Library of Science[7].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's founder is recorded as eLife[8].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's founder is recorded as DataCite[9].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's founder is recorded as Curtin University[10].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's Commons category is recorded as Initiative for Open Citations[11].
  • +2017-04-06T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Initiative for Open Citations[12].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's official website is recorded as https://i4oc.org/[13].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's sponsor is recorded as Microsoft Research[14].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's sponsor is recorded as Alfred P. Sloan Foundation[15].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's sponsor is recorded as dblp computer science bibliography[16].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's sponsor is recorded as Max Planck Digital Library[17].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's sponsor is recorded as Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence[18].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's sponsor is recorded as Wiki Education Foundation[19].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's sponsor is recorded as Center for Open Science[20].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's sponsor is recorded as Mozilla Corporation[21].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's sponsor is recorded as OurResearch[22].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's sponsor is recorded as Figshare[23].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's sponsor is recorded as League of European Research Libraries[24].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's sponsor is recorded as Project Jupyter[25].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's sponsor is recorded as Authorea[26].
  • Initiative for Open Citations's sponsor is recorded as CORE (Connecting Repositories)[27].

Body

Founding

Founders include OpenCitations[5], Wikimedia Foundation[6], Public Library of Science[7], eLife[8], DataCite[9], and Curtin University[10]. +2017-04-06T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Initiative for Open Citations[12].

Identity

Initiative for Open Citations's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'i4oc'}[28].

Why It Matters

Initiative for Open Citations ranks in the top 4% of organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13 views/month).[2] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . i4oc.org. i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . i4oc.org. i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . i4oc.org. i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . i4oc.org. i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . i4oc.org. i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . i4oc.org. i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . i4oc.org. i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . i4oc.org. Retrieved . i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . i4oc.org. Retrieved . i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . i4oc.org. Retrieved . i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . i4oc.org. Retrieved . i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . i4oc.org. Retrieved . i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . i4oc.org. Retrieved . i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . i4oc.org. Retrieved . i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . i4oc.org. Retrieved . i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . i4oc.org. Retrieved . i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . i4oc.org. Retrieved . i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . i4oc.org. Retrieved . i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . i4oc.org. Retrieved . i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . i4oc.org. Retrieved . i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . i4oc.org. Retrieved . i4oc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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