After a time of exploration of technical needs, idea, plans, the Journal of Cheminformatics launched its Citation Typing Ontology (CiTO) Pilot this summer (doi:10.1186/s13321-020-00448-1). I am very excited about this, because the CiTO tells us why we are citing literature. We are a very long way away from publishing industry adoption, but we have to start somewhere. Laeeq Ahmed et al. published a few weeks ago the first research article with CiTO annotation of references (“Predicting target profiles with confidence as a service using docking scores”)!

Of course, I also have to show a screenshot of what the annotation actually looks like, so here goes:

Thanks for the authors for adding these annotations!

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