Willighagen Egon
Department of Bioinformatics-BiGCaT, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
J Cheminform. 2023 Feb 3;15(1):14. doi: 10.1186/s13321-023-00683-2.
Citations are an essential aspect of research communication and have become the basis of many evaluation metrics in the academic world. Some see citation counts as a mark of scientific impact or even quality, but in reality the reasons for citing other work are manifold which makes the interpretation more complicated than a single citation count can reflect. Two years ago, the Journal of Cheminformatics proposed the CiTO Pilot for the adoption of a practice of annotating citations with their citation intentions. Basically, when you cite a journal article or dataset (or any other source), you also explain why specifically you cite that source. Particularly, the agreement and disagreement and reuse of methods and data are of interest. This article explores what happened after the launch of the pilot. We summarize how authors in the Journal of Cheminformatics used the pilot, shows citation annotations are distributed with Wikidata, visualized with Scholia, discusses adoption outside BMC, and finally present some thoughts on what needs to happen next.
引文是研究交流的一个重要方面，并且已成为学术界许多评估指标的基础。一些人将引用次数视为科学影响力甚至质量的标志，但实际上引用其他作品的原因是多方面的，这使得解读比单一的引用次数所能反映的更为复杂。两年前，《化学信息学杂志》提出了“引用意图标注（CiTO）试点项目”，以采用一种用引用意图注释引文的做法。基本上，当你引用一篇期刊文章、数据集（或任何其他来源）时，你还要解释具体为什么引用该来源。特别值得关注的是方法和数据的一致、不一致以及复用情况。本文探讨了试点项目启动后发生的情况。我们总结了《化学信息学杂志》的作者如何使用该试点项目，展示了引文注释如何在维基数据中分布、如何用Scholia进行可视化，讨论了在BMC之外的采用情况，最后对接下来需要做的事情提出了一些想法。
