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The research tool scienceOS is built on data that others collect, curate and share. We thank them for their work and name them here, together with the terms under which we use their data.

Papers
The paper index of scienceOS is built on data from Semantic Scholar (semanticscholar.org), a project of the Allen Institute for AI. We use it under the Semantic Scholar API License Agreement and the licenses of the Semantic Scholar datasets.

Open access full texts
To find metadata and open access versions of papers, scienceOS uses OpenAlex (openalex.org) and Unpaywall (unpaywall.org), whose data is available under CC0. It also uses metadata from Crossref (crossref.org), and PubMed and PubMed Central (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov), provided by the US National Library of Medicine. Each full text remains under the license its authors or publisher gave it.

Journal rankings
The SJR indicator and journal quartiles come from SCImago Journal & Country Rank (scimagojr.com), developed by SCImago Research Group.

Retractions
Papers with a retraction, correction or expression of concern are marked using the Retraction Watch Database (retractionwatch.com). The database is maintained by The Center for Scientific Integrity and made openly available by Crossref.

Regions and districts on maps
Regions and districts on maps come from the divisions of Overture Maps (overturemaps.org), available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0 (opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0). They contain data © OpenStreetMap contributors (openstreetmap.org/copyright). They also contain data from geoBoundaries, Esri Community Maps contributors and Land Information New Zealand, each under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). We simplify the outlines for display. Borders are shown as OpenStreetMap has them. They do not express a position of scienceOS. On request, we send you, free of charge, the scripts with which we build our copy from the Overture release in use: [email protected].

Places and postal codes on maps
Place names and postal codes come from GeoNames (geonames.org), available under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). We use a shortened version that keeps names, coordinates and population.

All data is provided as is, without warranty. Its use in scienceOS does not imply endorsement by any of the providers named here.