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Cortexa research tool·literature·opencitations
OpenCitations Get References
Get the list of papers cited by a given scientific article (its reference list) using OpenCitations COCI index. OpenCitations is a free, open scholarly citation database derived from CrossRef. Returns citation links with DOIs, publication dates, and time spans between publications. Useful for citation analysis, bibliometrics, and understanding research impact.
Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 121msCortexa
Status
The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.
- Last probed
- 1d ago
- Last success
- 1d ago
- Last latency
- 121ms
Schema
JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.
{
"properties": {
"doi": {
"description": "DOI of the paper to get references for. Do not include 'https://doi.org/' prefix. Examples: '10.1002/jcc.21224', '10.1038/nature12373'",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"doi"
],
"type": "object"
}Examples (1)
Default OpenCitations Get References 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_references
- Tool name
- OpenCitations_get_references
- Added
- 2026-04-30 22:47Z
- Tags
- tooluniverse