BROOKLYN, NY — March 09, 2021 — scite, an award-winning platform for discovering and evaluating scientific articles, and John Wiley & Sons Inc., a global leader in research and education, have partnered to launch Smart Citations on selected Wiley journals. The one-year pilot includes 121 journals published by Wiley.

Citations are an integral part of scholarly publishing used to assess the impact of scientific articles, journals, researchers, and institutions, and are displayed on nearly all articles. However, despite their prevalence, citations lack important qualifying information such as why a citation was made. Scite has introduced Smart Citations to solve this problem.

Smart Citations display the context of each citation to a publication, allowing readers to see not only how many times a publication has been cited but also how it was cited. Additionally, scite has deployed a state-of-the-art deep learning model to classify the citation statement as providing supporting or disputing evidence for the cited claim.

Josh Nicholson, co-founder and CEO of scite said, “The launch of Smart Citations on 121 different journals represents a key milestone for scite, Wiley, and the scientific community. We think our Smart Citations represent the next generation of citations.” He continued, “Citations are a wealth of information but today we treat them as a mere number. Unlocking this information is our mission at scite, and we’re extremely excited to work with Wiley to display this information on the main article page.”

“Wiley is pleased to build upon our existing partnership with scite to pilot Smart Citations with select Wiley journals,” said Rebecca Reddecliffe, Product Manager, Wiley Online Library. “This feature reinforces our ongoing commitment to leverage technology that supports scholarship and brings published research to life.”

About scite
scite is a Brooklyn-based startup that helps researchers better discover and evaluate scientific articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contradicting evidence. Scite is used by researchers from dozens of countries and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health. For more information, please visit scite, follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook, and download our Chrome or Firefox plugin. For careers, please see our jobs page.