Crossref

E406991

digital infrastructure provider nonprofit organization registration agency

Crossref is a nonprofit organization that provides persistent digital identifiers and metadata services for scholarly content to support reliable citation linking and research discovery.

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All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
Crossref canonical	4
Crossmark	1
Crossref Event Data	1
Crossref Funder Registry	1
Crossref Metadata Search	1
Crossref REST API	1
Crossref Similarity Check	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4020720 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Crossref
Context triple: [International DOI Foundation, hasMember, Crossref]

A. Publons
Publons is an online platform that helps researchers track, verify, and showcase their peer review and editorial contributions for academic journals.
B. Web of Science
Web of Science is a major multidisciplinary citation indexing and abstracting database widely used for academic research and bibliometric analysis.
C. Scopus
Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature covering scientific, technical, medical, and social science research.
D. Europe PubMed Central
Europe PubMed Central is a regional, open-access repository that provides access to biomedical and life sciences research articles, mirroring and extending the content of PubMed Central for European users.
E. DOI
DOI is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Department of the Interior, the federal executive department responsible for managing the nation’s natural resources and public lands.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Crossref
Target entity description: Crossref is a nonprofit organization that provides persistent digital identifiers and metadata services for scholarly content to support reliable citation linking and research discovery.

A. Publons
Publons is an online platform that helps researchers track, verify, and showcase their peer review and editorial contributions for academic journals.
B. Web of Science
Web of Science is a major multidisciplinary citation indexing and abstracting database widely used for academic research and bibliometric analysis.
C. Scopus
Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature covering scientific, technical, medical, and social science research.
D. Europe PubMed Central
Europe PubMed Central is a regional, open-access repository that provides access to biomedical and life sciences research articles, mirroring and extending the content of PubMed Central for European users.
E. DOI
DOI is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Department of the Interior, the federal executive department responsible for managing the nation’s natural resources and public lands.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	digital infrastructure provider ⓘ nonprofit organization ⓘ registration agency ⓘ
collaboratesWith	DataCite ⓘ International DOI Foundation ⓘ ORCID ⓘ Publishers ⓘ
coreProduct	centralized scholarly metadata ⓘ persistent identifiers for scholarly content ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
focusesOn	citation integrity ⓘ open scholarly infrastructure ⓘ research discovery ⓘ scholarly communication ⓘ
governanceType	member-governed ⓘ
hasMainOfficeIn	Lynnfield, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasMemberType	funders ⓘ government agencies ⓘ learned societies ⓘ publishers ⓘ research institutions ⓘ universities ⓘ
industry	information services ⓘ research infrastructure ⓘ scholarly publishing ⓘ
isRegistrationAgencyFor	DOI ⓘ
mission	to make research outputs easy to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse ⓘ
providesService	Crossref self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Crossmark Crossref self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Crossref Event Data Crossref self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Crossref Funder Registry Crossref self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Crossref Metadata Search Crossref self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Crossref REST API Crossref self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Crossref Similarity Check Digital Object Identifier registration ⓘ citation linking ⓘ metadata registration ⓘ reference linking ⓘ
supportsContentType	book chapters ⓘ books ⓘ conference proceedings ⓘ datasets ⓘ journal articles ⓘ preprints ⓘ reports ⓘ standards ⓘ theses ⓘ
supportsPrinciple	interoperability in scholarly communication ⓘ open scholarly metadata ⓘ persistence of scholarly records ⓘ
usesStandard	Digital Object Identifier system ⓘ surface form: Digital Object Identifier

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

International DOI Foundation → hasMember → Crossref ⓘ

ORCID → collaboratesWith → Crossref ⓘ

Europe PubMed Central → integratesWith → Crossref ⓘ