IUCr implements Smart Citations from scite

The IUCr has partnered with scite (Brooklyn, NY, USA), an award-winning platform for discovering and evaluating scientific articles. With this partnership, full-text articles from IUCr journals will be analysed and indexed by scite, improving the discoverability of IUCr articles and further improving the coverage of scite. Additionally, IUCr articles will also now display Smart Citations from scite, allowing readers to better see how an article has been cited by subsequent articles and, specifically, if they have provided supporting or contradicting evidence.

To date, scite has classified 480 million citation statements from 15 million scientific articles and is used by researchers from dozens of countries around the world. scite is funded in part by grants from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health.

Josh Nicholson, co-founder and CEO of scite says, “We’re excited to work with the IUCr to implement Smart Citations. I worked in a crystallography lab as an undergraduate so I’m happy to be working with this community again to make it easier to discover and evaluate research.” Peter Strickland, Executive Managing Editor for IUCr journals says, “IUCr journals values this new partnership with scite and the innovative use of deep learning to provide new ways of navigating the scientific literature.”