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Tracking citations, to all research output
While Nature calls for more action on open metadata (doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02915-1), the concept of open citations remains a central feature of our knowledge dissemination. After the wild success of the Initiative for Open Citations (and still excited that the ACS joined eventually!), it is time to move on. Currently, the open citation metadata is focusing towards journal articles (yeah, we've heard that before), but citations to research output in general is important. It's the scholarly implementation of learnability, perhaps. DataCite (doi:10.1045/january2015-brase) and Software Citations (doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.86) are migrating from great ideas, to actual adoption. But we have a long road ahead.