# OpenCitations Referenced Articles Scraper

**Use case:** 

Scrape OpenCitations for references cited by a DOI with OCI, citing and cited IDs, creation date, timespan, title, and authors. Export to JSON or CSV.

## Input

```json
{
  "maxItems": 50,
  "doi": "10.1016/j.jmb.2005.08.075",
  "searchType": "references",
  "includeMetadata": true
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "oci": {
    "label": "OCI",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "citing": {
    "label": "Citing Entity",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "cited": {
    "label": "Cited Entity",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "creation": {
    "label": "Creation Date",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "timespan": {
    "label": "Timespan",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "journalSelfCitation": {
    "label": "Journal Self-Citation",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "authorSelfCitation": {
    "label": "Author Self-Citation",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "id": {
    "label": "ID",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "authors": {
    "label": "Authors",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "publicationDate": {
    "label": "Publication Date",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "issue": {
    "label": "Issue",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "volume": {
    "label": "Volume",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "venue": {
    "label": "Venue",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "type": {
    "label": "Type",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "page": {
    "label": "Page",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "publisher": {
    "label": "Publisher",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "editor": {
    "label": "Editor",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "scrapedTimestamp": {
    "label": "Scraped Date",
    "format": "datetime"
  },
  "error": {
    "label": "Error",
    "format": "text"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Open Citations Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/open-citations-scraper) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/parseforge/open-citations-scraper) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.