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Everything about Crossref

Nonprofit open digital infrastructure organization

Crossref is a nonprofit open digital infrastructure organization for the global scholarly research community. It is the largest digital object identifier (DOI) Registration Agency of the International DOI Foundation. It has 23,000 members from 164 countries representing publishers, libraries, research institutions, and funders and was launched in early 2000 as a cooperative effort among publishers to enable persistent cross-platform citation linking in online academic journals. As of July 2023, Crossref identifies and connects 150 million records of metadata about research objects made openly available for reuse without restriction. They facilitate an average of 1.1 billion DOI resolutions every month, and they see 1 billion queries of the metadata every month. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: CrossrefA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Crossref as a bibliographic discovery tool in the arts and humanitiesInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: The MOP listThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Large-scale comparison of bibliographic data sources: Scopus, Web of Science, Dimensions, Crossref, and Microsoft AcademicCited 822 times
  5. Go sideways: Gigabyte (journal)A closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Initiative for Open CitationsA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun cross-reference

Verb cross-reference

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. Background
  2. Metadata
  3. Services
  4. Challenges
  5. Awards

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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