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Citations

Score 20.1 / 100 16 providers +18 via APIs 25 APIs Search apis.io →
Business capabilities this tag reaches
Marketing Management 1
Variants seen in the corpus: CitationCitations

Providers using this tag (16)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
ClarivateAnalyticsBibliometricsData80 APIs72.1ProfoundCompanyArtificial IntelligenceAnswer Engine OptimizationAEO4 APIs67.3
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
AccuraCiteResearchBibliographyAcademic2 APIs59.6AirOpsCompanyApplicationArtificial IntelligenceContent2 APIs62.3
Thin 5 Limited public surface area
Web of Science APIsResearchAcademicBibliometrics2 APIs38.5Semantic ScholarAcademicResearchPaper5 APIs31.6CrossrefDOIFundersIdentifiers1 API32.3CourtListenerLegalCourt DataCase LawPACER1 API31.5OpenLawsLegalLawStatutesRegulations2 APIs31.4
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
PubMedBiomedicalLife SciencesResearchLiterature1 API25.9OpenCitationsScholarlyResearchOpen Science2 APIs25.8BrightLocalLocal SEOBusiness ListingsRank TrackingReviews1 API19.7Citation File FormatAcademicMetadataOpen Standard6 APIs17.2ACM Digital LibraryAcademicBibliographic RecordsComputing3 APIs21.4
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
OpenAlexPublic APIsResearch DataScholarly1 API4.1inspirehep.netPublic APIsOAI-PMHScholarly1 API4.0

APIs with this tag (25)

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Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Vendasta Citations APIThe Citations API from Vendasta — 2 operation(s) for citations.70.9GitDealFlow Citation APIReference-manager exports68.7
Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
AirOps Citations APIThe Citations API from AirOps — 2 operation(s) for citations.62.3Kensho Grounding Agent (Alpha)Data retrieval service that translates natural-language queries into structured retrieval tasks across S&P ...61.3AccuraCite APISynchronous REST API for citation verification and claim-to-source lookup. Two operations, both POST and bo...59.6ANP2 Citations APIThe Citations API from ANP2 — 1 operation(s) for citations.55.8
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Telenor Sverige Citations APIThe Citations API from Telenor Sverige — 2 operation(s) for citations.45.7OSF Citations APIThe Citations API from OSF — 2 operation(s) for citations.42.1Wikimedia Citation APIgeneration of citation data41.3Wikipedia / MediaWiki Citation APIgeneration of citation data39.3
Thin 11 Limited public surface area
Web of Science APIs Citations APIThe citations API from Web of Science APIs — 3 operation(s) for citations.38.5USGS Water Services Citations APICitations associated with water measurement methods.37.4U.S. Geological Survey Citations APICitations associated with water measurement methods.37.2vLex Citations APIDetect and resolve legal citations (vCite)35.5Perma.cc API (Harvard Library Innovation Lab)Perma.cc is the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab's link-rot service, creating permanent citable ar...34.0Urantia Papers Citation APIThe Citation API from Urantia Papers — 1 operation(s) for citation.32.2CourtListener Citation APIThe Citation API from CourtListener — 1 operation(s) for citation.31.5Wikisource Citation APIgeneration of citation data31.1USPTO Citations APIThe Citations API from USPTO — 2 operation(s) for citations.30.1Department of Interior Citations APICitations associated with water measurement methods.29.8DataCite Event Data APITracks mentions, citations, and scholarly events related to registered DOIs. Enables discovery of how resea...29.7
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented
OpenCitations Citations APIOperations for retrieving citation metadata and counts25.8Free Law Project Citations APICitation lookup and verification.22.7ACM Digital Library Citation Export APIThe ACM Digital Library provides citation export functionality supporting BibTeX, EndNote, and ACM Referenc...21.4BrightLocal APIRESTful API providing programmatic access to BrightLocal local SEO tools including local rank tracking, lis...19.7

Companies reaching this through an API (18)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Citations” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

ANP2 DataCite Department of Interior Free Law Project GitDealFlow Harvard University OSF S&P Global Telenor Sverige U.S. Geological Survey Urantia Papers USGS Water Services USPTO Vendasta vLex Wikimedia Wikipedia / MediaWiki Wikisource

Score breakdown

Frequency
48.6
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
37.2
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
3.2
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Scholarly 7 co-occurrences Academic 6 co-occurrences History 6 co-occurrences DOI 6 co-occurrences Recommendations 5 co-occurrences Open Access 6 co-occurrences Research Data 6 co-occurrences Research 11 co-occurrences

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Provider tag16
Api tag24
Openapi tag18
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