How to cite

If OPTIMADE has been useful to you, please cite it. Citations are how the consortium shows that the work is worth continuing.

The OPTIMADE API

• Evans et al, Developments and applications of the OPTIMADE API for materials discovery, design, and data exchange, Digital Discovery (2024) 10.1039/D4DD00039K (preprint: 10.48550/arXiv.2402.00572)
• Andersen et al, OPTIMADE, an API for exchanging materials data, Sci. Data 8, 217 (2021) 10.1038/s41597-021-00974-z

The specification document

• Andersen et al, The OPTIMADE Specification, Zenodo, 10.5281/zenodo.4195050

The Python implementation

If you used optimade-python-tools to serve or consume an OPTIMADE API, please also cite:

• Evans et al, optimade-python-tools: A Python library for serving and consuming materials data via OPTIMADE APIs, Journal of Open Source Software 6 (65), 3458 (2021) 10.21105/joss.03458

Also cite the database

OPTIMADE gives you access to other people’s data. Each database has its own citation requirements, and querying it through a common API does not replace them. Check the provider’s own terms, which you can reach from the providers dashboard.