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Now that Rogue Scholar is getting serious about citations to blog posts\nand how complex this is,\nI have been wondering how this works.

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I already knew that Crossref tracks citations (see e.g. this API call\nfor a paper where Jmol is used, doi:10.59787/2413-5488-2025-49-1-83-92),\nand I learned that apparently Crossref also does an good job at finding citations when blog post URLs are used instead of the DOIs of the blog posts.

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But how does it know? When Rogue Scholar registers a DOI, I assume it passes on the URL to redirect too. But what if the URL changed over time?\nFor example, I used blogger.com for many years (with satisfaction) and the URLs of the posts have changed!

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Crossref, how do I get the old blog post URLs also linked to the DOI?

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For example, the doi 10.59350/65nqr-3w351 links now to\nhttps://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2023/08/18/last-post-here-freebie-model-online.html\nbut originally the URL was https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2023/08/last-post-here-freebie-model-online.html .

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References

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Akatyev, N. (2025). TEACHING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF MOLECULAR SYMMETRY IN HIGH SCHOOL THROUGH THE USE OF THE INTERACTIVE ONLINE RESOURCE SYMOTTER. National Center for Higher Education Development, 49(1). https://doi.org/10.59787/2413-5488-2025-49-1-83-92 CrossRef Scholia
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Fenner, M. (2025). Rogue Scholar citation tracking launches to production. In Front Matter. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/zyg15-qv911 CrossRef Scholia
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Willighagen, E. (2023). Last post there / the Freebie model online. In Front Matter. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.59350/65nqr-3w351 CrossRef Scholia
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