1. Toward open citations: Why, how, and when?
Ludo Waltman
Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University
Open Metrics Seminar
Uppsala, Sweden
May 23, 2018
2. How do Sweden and the Netherlands stand out from
the rest of the world?
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12. Arguments for open citations
• Essential for literature search, research evaluation, research planning, etc.
• Improving reproducibility of scientometric analyses
• Improving transparency of scientometric analyses
• Improving equity in the scientometric community
• Citations are part of the commons
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34. How do Sweden and the Netherlands stand out from
the rest of the world?
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35. Support for open citations
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www.issi-society.org/blog/posts/2018/april/open-citations-to-open-science/
36. Leading role for Sweden and the Netherlands in
supporting open citations
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Country Signatures
Inhabitants
in millions
Signatures
per 1 million inhabitants
USA 41 324.5 0.13
Netherlands 35 17.0 2.05
Sweden 25 9.9 2.52
Spain 24 46.4 0.52
UK 24 66.2 0.36
China 19 1409.5 0.01
Germany 16 82.1 0.19
France 12 65.0 0.18
Brazil 11 209.3 0.05
Norway 10 5.3 1.88
Italy 8 59.4 0.13
India 7 1339.2 0.01
Denmark 6 5.7 1.05
Finland 5 5.5 0.91
Switzerland 5 8.5 0.59
Canada 5 36.6 0.14