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Crossref

Crossref (formerly styled 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…

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Background

NonprofitPublishersOpen accessDatabaseFulltext
15 related topics

Metadata

ORCIDCRediT
2 related topics

Services

Plagiarism
1 related topics

Challenges

Openalex
1 related topics

Key facts & relationships

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Headquarters
Lynnfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Chair
Lisa Schiff, California Digital Library
Executive Director
Ed Pentz
Expenses
US$10.5 million (2024)
Formation
1999; 27 years ago (1999)
Legal status
501(c)(6) organization

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Overview

Background

Metadata

Services

Challenges

Awards

Advanced semantic analysis

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Map overview Semantic statistics

Crossref

Nodes31
Edges30
Triples77
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.064516
Components1

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Crossref

Top relations

related to Awards · 22
Crossref → According, ALPSP, Association, Award, Contribution, CrossCheck, CrossMark, Crossref Cited, Crossref's, CSE, FundRef, In September, Learned, Linking, May, Meritorious Achievement, Professional Society Publishers, Scholarly Publishing, Science Editors, The Council
related to Metadata · 12
Crossref → Crossref Cited-by, DOI, Elsevier, IDs, Most, Optional, ORCID, The, This, URL, URLs, When
related to background · 9
Crossref → Crossref's, DOIs, Linked, NGOs, Rather, REST API, Search, SSH, STM
related to Crossmark · 5
Crossref → Crossmark, DOI, If, The, The Crossmark
related to Challenges · 4
Crossref → In June, Metadata, Openalex, This
related to External links · 3
Crossref → Blog Archived, Official, Wayback Machine
related to Services · 2
Crossref → In, PDFs
Chair · 1
Crossref → Lisa Schiff, California Digital Library
Executive Director · 1
Crossref → Ed Pentz
Expenses · 1
Crossref → US$10.5 million (2024)

Important terminology Word statistics

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Important terminology

metadata publishers scholarly research crossmark also doi linking content digital open members references status database service article information award link

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
CrossrefChairLisa Schiff, California Digital Library1.00infobox
CrossrefExecutive DirectorEd Pentz1.00infobox
CrossrefExpensesUS$10.5 million (2024)1.00infobox
CrossrefFormation1999; 27 years ago (1999)1.00infobox
CrossrefHeadquartersLynnfield, Massachusetts, U.S.1.00infobox
CrossrefLegal status501(c)(6) organization1.00infobox
CrossrefRevenueUS$13.3 million (2024)1.00infobox
CrossrefWebsitewww.crossref.org1.00infobox
plagiarism screeninginstance ofCrossref provides additional services0.80text
searching by fundinginstance ofCrossref provides additional services0.80text
and a button on article pagesinstance ofCrossref provides additional services0.80text
PDFs to determine the status of an iteminstance ofCrossref provides additional services0.80text

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