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\title{Opening Citations to Open Research}



\author[1]{Josh Nicholson}%
\author[1]{Alberto Pepe}%
\affil[1]{Authorea}%


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  \date{April 25, 2026}


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\section*{The importance of citations in
scholarship}

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Citations are arguably one of the defining features of research
communication. Linking the corpus of knowledge together, across time and
space, they connect Einstein's work at the beginning of last
century~\cite{Einstein_1906}~to researchers writing important physics
research today~\cite{Stanislavsky_2017}. This web of knowledge is immensely
powerful for the analysis of ideas over time and for determining what
might be important or not. \textbf{If you imagine the scholarly corpus
as a brain you can think of scholarly citations as its neural
connections.}

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The power of citations has, for better or (very likely) worse, caused
them to be commoditized and used in many ways that they were not
originally intended. For example, researchers' impact and productivity
is said to be measured by their ``h-index'', a measurement of a
scholar's most cited papers and the number of citations they have
received~\cite{Hirsch_2010}. Journals prestige is measured by the impact
factor, which is based on the average citation count of articles
published by a journal over a two-year span~\cite{Garfield_2006}.

Because citations are so valuable, they have been for many years
controlled by different stakeholders and inaccessible to many
researchers and policy makers. Today, that's changing with the
\href{https://i4oc.org/\#}{Initiative for Open Citations}, a movement
and organization that aims to de-commoditize citations and make them
open and freely available to the public and researchers.

We, at Authorea, are excited to be part of this initiative alongside
\href{https://i4oc.org/\#stakeholders}{other great companies, projects,
and initiatives}. From day one, we have taken~citations very seriously.
Our citation tool has been our most important features since the
beginning: we allow authors to
\href{https://intercom.help/authorea/cite/citing-sources}{search, format
and add citations} extremely easily when they are writing their
manuscript. And every published document automagically contains a list
of (\textbf{open!}) citations at the end, as a bibliography. This
document, included! See below :)

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