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Crossref

Every CitationLab post tagged Crossref. A small collection for now; it grows as the topic recurs.

Updating References

How we find the newer version: seven engines, one verdict

Crossref, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex and the scraped tiers, asked in a fixed order. Why free-first is a metadata-quality rule, and what the engine ledger reveals.

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Case Files

When a university becomes an author

A reference whose 'author' is a department: how affiliations leak into the author slot, why blanket rules break real corporate authors like WHO, and how registry evidence repairs the entry — with your approval.

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