Understanding the implications of Open Citations — how far along are we?

"With the recent interest in integrating discovery of open access, as well as linked data (with a dash of machine learning and text mining) we have the beginnings of an interesting situation. A third development which was harder to forsee is the rise in Open Citation movement which I will focus on in this post. How did this movement begin?

How does the size of the open citations compared to gold standards like Scopus and Web of Science? Who are the players that use it (e.g. Digital Science Dimensions) and how might it develop in the future?"