WellCited

WellCited is a web-based platform that aggregates scholarly citations and provides analytics to researchers, libraries, and publishers. It is designed to assist users in discovering literature, assessing impact, and tracking scholarly influence across disciplines.

Key features include citation counts and trends, author and affiliation disambiguation, citation graphs and networks, field-normalized metrics, topic clustering, and export options. The system supports customizable dashboards, alerts for new citations, and API access for integration with institutional systems.

WellCited aggregates data from multiple sources, including major bibliographic databases and publisher feeds, and uses machine learning to improve record matching and deduplication. It emphasizes data provenance and offers versioned data snapshots to support reproducibility.

The platform is used by researchers for literature reviews, by grant offices to illustrate impact, and by librarians for collection analysis. Critics caution that citation counts can reflect field size and language biases, and may overemphasize journals with broader coverage or aggressive indexing practices.

WellCited originated as a collaborative project among universities and research libraries in the mid-2010s and has since grown through partnerships with publishers and consortia. It is maintained by a governance board that includes researchers, librarians, and data scientists, with ongoing updates to data sources and analytic capabilities.