OpenCitations · Example Payload

Incoming Citations

CitationsScholarlyResearchOpen ScienceBibliometricsDOIAcademic

Incoming Citations is an example object payload from OpenCitations, with 5 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

exampleendpointnotesrequestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "example": "Get all incoming citations to a work identified by DOI",
  "endpoint": "GET /index/v2/citations/{id}",
  "notes": "Returns up to 200,000 citations. For large-scale retrieval, use database dumps at download.opencitations.net.",
  "request": {
    "url": "https://api.opencitations.net/index/v2/citations/doi:10.1108/jd-12-2013-0166",
    "method": "GET",
    "headers": {
      "Accept": "application/json",
      "authorization": "YOUR-OPENCITATIONS-ACCESS-TOKEN"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": [
      {
        "oci": "06101801781-06180334099",
        "citing": "omid:br/06101801781 doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.421 pmid:33817056",
        "cited": "omid:br/06180334099 doi:10.1108/jd-12-2013-0166",
        "creation": "2021-03-10",
        "timespan": "P6Y0M1D",
        "journal_sc": "no",
        "author_sc": "no"
      },
      {
        "oci": "06102227626-06180334099",
        "citing": "omid:br/06102227626 doi:10.3233/ds-190019",
        "cited": "omid:br/06180334099 doi:10.1108/jd-12-2013-0166",
        "creation": "2019-11-25",
        "timespan": "P4Y8M16D",
        "journal_sc": "no",
        "author_sc": "no"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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