Research Article: “The NIH Open Citation Collection: A Public Access, Broad Coverage Resource”

The following article was recently published by PLOS Biology.

Title

The NIH Open Citation Collection: A Public Access, Broad Coverage Resource

Authors

B. Ian Hutchins
National Institutes of Health

Kirk L. Baker
National Institutes of Health

Matthew T. Davis
National Institutes of Health

Mario A. Diwersy
UberResearch

Ehsanul Haque
National Institutes of Health

Robert M. Harriman
National Institutes of Health

Travis A. Hoppe
National Institutes of Health

Stephen A. Leicht
UberResearch

Payam Meyer
National Institutes of Health

George M. Santangelo
National Institutes of Health

Source

PLoS Biol 17(10): e3000385
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000385

Abstract

Citation data have remained hidden behind proprietary, restrictive licensing agreements, which raises barriers to entry for analysts wishing to use the data, increases the expense of performing large-scale analyses, and reduces the robustness and reproducibility of the conclusions. For the past several years, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Portfolio Analysis (OPA) has been aggregating and enhancing citation data that can be shared publicly. Here, we describe the NIH Open Citation Collection (NIH-OCC), a public access database for biomedical research that is made freely available to the community. This dataset, which has been carefully generated from unrestricted data sources such as MedLine, PubMed Central (PMC), and CrossRef, now underlies the citation statistics delivered in the NIH iCite analytic platform. We have also included data from a machine learning pipeline that identifies, extracts, resolves, and disambiguates references from full-text articles available on the internet. Open citation links are available to the public in a major update of iCite (https://icite.od.nih.gov).

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