Open Food Facts and Science

Open Food Facts supports science.

I published a scientific work based on Open Food Facts

• Please let us know using the form
• You can also send us an email at contact@openfoodfacts.org

Who?

Dozens of researchers already know or use Open Food Facts data. See:

• our spreadsheet of papers that reuse or mention Open Food Facts data
• our short synthesis related to scientific articles where Open Food Facts played a role.

🎯 Roadmap

Document best practises

• How to help mention Open Food Facts? For example, see the end of this page.
• Create a DOI? DOIs seem to be attached to fixed datasets and not databases. See:
  • Why to attribute DOIs to research data?
  • DOI for a research dataset : what complementarity with databases?
• Look at the other article to see how they cite the database

Work In Progress

• Nature seems to implement a tool for exporting articles in a .ris format (that is readable by most of the citation software : ris on wikipedia)
• Some articles cite OFF by giving the url in the article :[1], [2]
• Some cite OFF by giving the name : [3]
• Some put OFF in citations : [4]

If our objective is to have an easy way to follow the scientific article using OFF, it would be interesting to create a DOI, and propose an easy way to cite the database by offering a way to download the reference in one of the major formats (here are those proposed by google scholar):

• BibTeX (wikipedia page) is a text to copy past
• EndNote wikipedia page
• RefMan wikipedia page The software is not supported any more but the .ris format is still used, and proposed by nature when clicking on "cite this article"
• RefWorks wikipedia page