Citation widget

Showcase the uses and reuses of open biodiversity data by displaying data citation results for both individual datasets and publishers

Psittacus erithacus
Psittacus erithacus observed in Cuvette-Ouest, Congo by aliceantares. Photo via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

GBIF maintains an ongoing literature tracking programme that identifies research uses and citations of biodiversity data accessed through GBIF’s global infrastructure.

This easily configurable widget gives data curators a quick way to embed both GBIF's citation count and citation feed into external websites. In addition, the widget also supports the use of all filters and facets available through the literature tracking programme, including relevance (e.g. data uses), peer-reviewed, journal, journal publisher, country coverage, researcher country, and year, among others.

Citation count

To show a button with number of citation, simply insert an iframe like below. The important part is the source https://www.gbif.org/api/widgets/literature/button?YOUR_FILTER.

<iframe src="https://www.gbif.org/api/widgets/literature/button?gbifDatasetKey=50c9509d-22c7-4a22-a47d-8c48425ef4a7" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="false" style="width: 140px; height: 24px;"></iframe>

Citation feed

It is also possible to show the feed, by changing the url. The important part is the source https://www.gbif.org/api/widgets/literature/latest?YOUR_FILTER.

<iframe src="https://www.gbif.org/api/widgets/literature/latest?gbifDatasetKey=50c9509d-22c7-4a22-a47d-8c48425ef4a7" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="false" style="width: 100%; height: 350px;"></iframe>

Change the filter

You need to specify what literature to search for. You do so using the query parameters from literature search. For example: