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Crossref Event Data
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Crossref Event Data is a reference tool for monitoring scholarly citation activity; it is tangentially relevant to AI safety primarily through its use in assessing scientific integrity and detecting paper mills or citation manipulation in AI research literature.
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Crossref Event Data is a service that tracks and aggregates online activity and discussions around scholarly content, collecting data on how research is referenced, shared, and discussed across the web. It provides an open dataset of events linking scholarly works to online sources such as social media, Wikipedia, and news outlets. This helps researchers and institutions understand the broader impact and reach of academic publications.
Key Points
- •Aggregates real-time data on how scholarly articles are referenced and discussed across platforms like Twitter, Wikipedia, and Reddit.
- •Provides an open, freely accessible dataset of scholarly citation and mention events for research impact analysis.
- •Useful for detecting citation manipulation, paper mill activity, and anomalous citation patterns in scientific literature.
- •Supports transparency and accountability in academic publishing by making citation and mention data openly available.
- •Can be used to identify coordinated inauthentic behavior or suspicious patterns related to scientific integrity issues.
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Latest blog posts 2026 April 01
Reflections from Bangkok
Each organization in the global community of Crossref members (that’s currently over 24k organizations in 166 different countries) plays a key role in building the Research Nexus. Any opportunity we have to meet with our members in person is a highlight and a way for us to learn more from each other. The month of January saw three of us travel to Bangkok to attend the first-ever Charleston Conference organised in Asia and to meet with our growing community in Thailand.
...Find out more 2026 March 31
Voices from Crossref Metadata Sprint in São Paulo
This year, we placed a spotlight on the Latin American community, hosting the second Crossref Metadata Sprint in São Paulo, Brazil from 4 - 6 March 2026. In our first tri-lingual event, we brought together 31 participants from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico. Our goal was to foster community co-creation using the open scholarly metadata. The Sprint was an opportunity to pose questions, share ideas, collaborate on research, and propose innovative solutions that enhance the use of metadata in scholarly communication and beyond.
Read on for more details about the content of the Sprint, and the resulting projects. You can also register to join our Sprint Showcase call on 22nd April to hear directly from the team about their creations.
...Find out more 2026 March 30
DOI resolution and deposit outage on 17 March 2026
On 17 March 2026, we experienced an outage that affected DOI resolution for Crossref DOIs and the deposit of metadata records by Crossref members. In this summary, we outline what happened, the impact on our community, and the steps we are taking to strengthen our systems and processes as a result.
...Find out more 2026 March 24
Strengthening support for data citations and saying goodbye to Event Data
We’re excited to announce a new data citation API endpoint and are seeking your feedback. The new service makes existing data citation r
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