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Crossref: Measurement, Background & Metadata

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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Crossref topic overview

The analysis highlights Measurement, Background and Metadata as prominent areas in the source structure around Crossref.

Related topics
24
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
30
Extracted relationships
77
Concept neighborhoods
13
Bridge connections
30

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Background · 15 topics
Overview · 4 topics
Metadata · 2 topics
Awards · 1 topics
Challenges · 1 topics
Services · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

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

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Background

Metadata

Services

Challenges

Awards

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Crossref connects Entity context

The extracted context around Crossref shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, 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 Another extracted example is Crossref → Crossref Cited-by, DOI, Elsevier, IDs, Most, Optional, ORCID, The, This, URL, URLs, When. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

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

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

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

Crossref relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 77 structured relationships around Crossref. Examples in this analysis include Crossref → Chair → Lisa Schiff, California Digital Library and Crossref → Executive Director → Ed Pentz. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

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

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Crossref bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Scholarly, Metadata and Services. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Crossref
    • Scholarly
    • Metadata
    • Services
    • Research
    • Publishers
    • Association
    • Records
    • Database
    • Digital
    • Including
    • Provide
    • Provides
  • crossref
    • Scholarly
    • Metadata
    • Services
    • Research
    • Publishers
    • Association
    • Records
    • Database
    • Digital
    • Including
    • Provide
    • Provides
  • association of learned and professional society publishers
    • Lynnfield
    • Massachusetts
    • Also
    • Association
    • Publishers
    • References
    • Million
    • Nonprofit
    • International
    • Link
    • Made
    • Organization
  • metadata
    • Made
    • See
    • Includes
    • Open
    • References
    • Status
    • Crossmark
    • Research
    • Scholarly
    • Lynnfield
    • Massachusetts
    • Million
  • publishers
    • Also
    • Association
    • References
    • Lynnfield
    • Massachusetts
    • Link
    • Crossmark
    • Research
    • Scholarly
    • Million
    • Made
    • Registration
  • international doi foundation
    • Link
    • Also
    • Information
    • Lynnfield
    • Massachusetts
    • Publishers
    • Association
    • Organization
    • Registration
    • See
    • International
    • Services
  • digital object identifier
    • Nonprofit
    • Research
    • Lynnfield
    • Massachusetts
    • Million
    • Association
    • International
    • Made
    • Organization
    • Registration
    • Doi
    • Including
  • article discovery
    • Information
    • Scholarly
    • Records
    • Database
    • Doi
    • Includes
    • Including
    • Provides
    • Services
    • Award
    • Crossref
    • Linking

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Crossref, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Crossref with Background. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Crossref — Background · splits 15 ⟂ 16
Crossref — Overview · splits 26 ⟂ 5
Crossref — Metadata · splits 28 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Crossref

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

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Crossref to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Measurement, Background & Metadata, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Crossref · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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