28 February 2022
scite has partnered with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.
Using advanced machine learning techniques, scite has developed a novel system that provides enriched citation information, showing not only how many times an article has been cited but how it was cited by a paper by displaying the surrounding textual context, which section it was referenced in, and a classification indicating whether the claims from the cited paper were supported, mentioned, or contrasted. These next-generation citations, termed Smart Citations, help readers better understand and contextualize findings in the literature.
The partnership will allow scite to analyze all articles published by the six Science family journals, enhancing their discoverability and improving the coverage of scite. To date, scite has analyzed over 29M full-text articles, extracting over 980M Smart Citations. The partnership will also explore the addition of Smart Citations to Science family journal articles, something that increasingly more and more publishers are adopting, with over 3M articles already displaying Smart Citations from scite.
Josh Nicholson, co-founder, and CEO of scite says, “We’re thrilled to be working with AAAS. AAAS publishes some of the world’s most impactful research. We’re happy to help provide more context to seminal studies and to work more closely with AAAS in multiple areas.”
"We are delighted to partner with scite to enhance the discoverability of Science family research, which will help AAAS further pursue our mission to advance science and to communicate it broadly," said Bill Moran, Publisher of the Science family of journals at AAAS. “Through this partnership, we look forward to exploring uses of scite’s innovative tools for evaluating scientific research impacts."