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Citations

Score 20.5 / 100 23 providers +20 via APIs 27 APIs Search apis.io →
Business capabilities this tag reaches
Marketing Management 2
Variants seen in the corpus: CitationCitations

Providers using this tag (23)

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

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
ClarivateAnalyticsBibliometricsData26 APIs73.5ProfoundCompanyArtificial IntelligenceAnswer Engine OptimizationAI Search1 API71.3
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
AccuraCiteResearchBibliographyAcademic1 API61.3AirOpsCompanyApplicationArtificial IntelligenceContent1 API64.0
Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
CitationBibliographyWritingToolAcademic1 API44.8
Thin 9 Limited public surface area
Web of Science APIsResearchAcademicBibliometrics2 APIs38.5Semantic ScholarAcademicResearchPaper3 APIs32.9OpenCitationsScholarlyResearchOpen Science2 APIs27.4CiteLadderArtificial IntelligenceVisibilitySearch1 API36.2CrossrefDOIFundersIdentifiers1 API33.7OpenLawsLegalLawStatutesRegulations1 API33.0CourtListenerLegalCourt DataCase LawPACER1 API30.7CiteerbaarArtificial IntelligenceSEODigital-PRNetherlands1 API29.4AcaTroveArtificial IntelligenceResearchKnowledge Management1 API28.7
Emerging 7 Early or largely undocumented
PubMedBiomedicalLife SciencesResearchLiterature1 API25.9CiteMeAcademicToolFree1 API23.0CytadoBibliographyAcademicResearch2 APIs22.8BrightLocalLocal SEOBusiness ListingsRank TrackingReviews1 API19.7b/citedArtificial IntelligenceSEOAnalytics1 API17.6Citation File FormatAcademicMetadataOpen Standard6 APIs17.2ACM Digital LibraryAcademicBibliographic RecordsComputing3 APIs22.8
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
OpenAlexPublic APIsResearch DataScholarly1 API6.0inspirehep.netPublic APIsOAI-PMHScholarly1 API4.0

APIs with this tag (27)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Vendasta Citations APIThe Citations API from Vendasta — 2 operation(s) for citations.81.2
Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
AirOps Citations APIThe Citations API from AirOps — 2 operation(s) for citations.64.0AccuraCite APISynchronous REST API for citation verification and claim-to-source lookup. Two operations, both POST and bo...61.3Kensho Grounding Agent (Alpha)Data retrieval service that translates natural-language queries into structured retrieval tasks across S&P ...61.3GitDealFlow Citation APIReference-manager exports60.2
Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
AuditAE Citations APIRun prompts on answer engines and read the results.49.1Wikimedia Citation APIgeneration of citation data45.8ANP2 Citations APIThe Citations API from ANP2 — 1 operation(s) for citations.45.5Bucky Citations APIOperations under `citations`.44.7Wikipedia / MediaWiki Citation APIgeneration of citation data43.0
Thin 14 Limited public surface area
U.S. Geological Survey Citations APICitations associated with water measurement methods.38.6Web 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.37.4vLex 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...35.4OSF Citations APIThe Citations API from OSF — 2 operation(s) for citations.33.1Department of Interior Citations APICitations associated with water measurement methods.32.7Wikisource Citation APIgeneration of citation data32.5DataCite Event Data APITracks mentions, citations, and scholarly events related to registered DOIs. Enables discovery of how resea...32.3CourtListener Citation APIThe Citation API from CourtListener — 1 operation(s) for citation.30.7USPTO Citations APIThe Citations API from USPTO — 2 operation(s) for citations.30.1SwarmDM Citations APIThe citations API from SwarmDM — 1 operation(s) for citations.28.6OpenCitations Citations APIOperations for retrieving citation metadata and counts27.4Urantia Papers Citation APIThe Citation API from Urantia Papers — 1 operation(s) for citation.27.3
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
Free Law Project Citations APICitation lookup and verification.24.4ACM Digital Library Citation Export APIThe ACM Digital Library provides citation export functionality supporting BibTeX, EndNote, and ACM Referenc...22.8BrightLocal APIRESTful API providing programmatic access to BrightLocal local SEO tools including local rank tracking, lis...19.7

Companies reaching this through an API (20)

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

Score breakdown

Frequency
48.1
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.3
spread across providers
Quality lift
39.8
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
3.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Academic 9 co-occurrences Scholarly 7 co-occurrences DOI 6 co-occurrences Recommendations 5 co-occurrences History 5 co-occurrences Open Access 6 co-occurrences Research Data 6 co-occurrences SEO 5 co-occurrences

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