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Citation discovery pipeline.
Fonteum automatically discovers papers and datasets that cite federal healthcare records published via this platform. The pipeline polls OpenAlex — the open scholarly graph — for works that reference Fonteum source URLs, then routes candidates through a human moderation queue before surfacing them on researcher-facing pages.
How it works
- A nightly Inngest function queries OpenAlex for works containing Fonteum dataset URLs in their reference lists.
- Each candidate is written to the
discovered_citationstable with the reference typeapex_url(direct link to Fonteum). - Candidates enter the moderation queue. A reviewer approves or rejects each citation. Approved citations appear on /for/researchers and on the relevant study pages.
Reference types
- apex_url
- A direct hyperlink to a Fonteumpage or API endpoint found in the paper's body or references. This is the only reference type currently issued.
Moderation policy
Only citations from peer-reviewed journals, preprint servers (arXiv, medRxiv, bioRxiv), or established data repositories pass the moderation filter. The moderation team rejects self-citations, spam, and works that reference Fonteum only incidentally. Approved citations are immutable; rejected citations are soft-deleted and never resurfaced.