Exporting references and opening articles/citations

Description of reference details exported from different data sources

Publish or Perish can export the full bibliographic details of any of the results in eleven different styles, a handy shortcut if you need the full reference of an article or if you would like to copy all your own publications into a CV. Different data sources have different capabilities in this respect.

Data source Bibliographic details exported
Crossref Exports full bibliographic details of references including article DOI.
Google Scholar (GS)
Google Scholar Profile (GSP)
  • References are more complete than raw GS data, but might still have occasional missing elements.
  • For your own profile, references can be corrected manually.
Microsoft Academic (MA) Exports full bibliographic details of references including article DOI.

OpenAlex

Exports full bibliographic details of references including article DOI and journal ISSN.

PubMed

Exports full bibliographic details of references including article DOI and journal ISSN.
Scopus Exports full bibliographic details of references including article DOI and journal ISSN.

Semantic Scholar

Only exports author, year, title and DOI.
Web of Science Exports full bibliographic details of references including DOI and journal ISSN.

Open articles and citations

To help with literature reviews and/or more detailed analyses, you may wish to open results (publications) or their citing works in a web browser or Publish or Perish itself. Different data sources have different capabilities in this respect.

Data source Opens publication in browser Opens citing works in browser Opens citing works in PoP
Crossref Yes
No No
Google Scholar (GS) Yes
Yes Yes
Google Scholar Profile (GSP) Yes, opens in GSP view first, can click through to article Yes Yes
Microsoft Academic (MA) Yes
No No
OpenAlex Yes No No 
PubMed Yes  No  No 
Scopus Yes
Yes, citing works are shown, but can only click through if subscribed to Scopus No
Semantic Scholar Yes No  No 
Web of Science Yes
No No