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OpenCitations Get Citations

Get the list of papers that cite a given scientific article (its citation count and citing papers) using OpenCitations COCI index. Returns who has cited the paper since its publication. Useful for measuring research impact, finding follow-up work, and understanding how a paper influenced subsequent research.

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 96msCortexa

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Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 96ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "doi": {
      "description": "DOI of the paper to find citations for. Do not include 'https://doi.org/' prefix. Examples: '10.1038/nature12373', '10.1002/jcc.21224'",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "limit": {
      "default": 100,
      "description": "Maximum number of citations to return. Highly-cited papers can have 10,000+ citations; use this to avoid oversized responses.",
      "type": [
        "integer",
        "null"
      ]
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "doi"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default OpenCitations Get Citations call

public-safeinput

{
  "doi": "10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2"
}

Expected response keys: success

Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_OpenCitations_get_citations
Tool name: OpenCitations_get_citations
Added: 2026-04-30 22:47Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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