Efficient Bulk Access to Citations in OpenCitations
Abstract
OpenCitations aggregates and deduplicates bibliographic information from CrossRef, Europe PubMed Central, and other sources to construct a comprehensive, open index of citations between scientific works. This post describes the opencitations-client package which wraps the OpenCitations API and implements an automated pipeline for locally downloading, caching, and accessing OpenCitations in bulk.
Fields of Study & Subjects
scientometrics and bibliometrics research
Web visibility and informetrics
Library Science and Information
Publication details
- Publication date
- 10 February 2026
- Language
- EN