citatiestatus
Citatiestatus is a data concept used in bibliographic databases and reference-management platforms to describe the current state of a citation within a scholarly work or dataset. It captures whether a cited item is considered valid, under review, corrected, updated, retracted, unavailable, or otherwise altered since its original publication. The term is used in systems that track the provenance and credibility of citations in real time or near real time.
In practice, a citatiestatus entry is attached to each citation and includes fields such as the identifier
The purposes of citatiestatus are to improve data quality, transparency, and trust in scholarly communication. Researchers
Limitations include inconsistent adoption across platforms, potential delays in updating statuses, and varying definitions of status