In 2017, the I4OC open citation project was launched, which builds on collaboration between scientific periodical publishers, academics and readers to provide access to the latest research information and citation data for publicly available articles. The I4OC standard is mandatory for publications indexed in Scopus and Web of Science and is part of the generally accepted concept of open access of scientific research results for journals that distribute scientific research under full open access rights.

Journal “Eurasian Union of Scientists. Series: economic and legal sciences” is constantly expanding the list of scientific citation bases and strives to establish cooperation with well-known scientometric bases - Scopus and Web of Science, in order to improve the quality of publications and increase the rating of authors. The main purpose of the I4OC standard is to create structured, segregated and open citations. Structuring makes it possible to express data about each publication in machine-readable formats and provide programmatic access to them. Splitting citations gives access to each individual publication without reference to the edition in which it is published. The openness of citations facilitates the discovery and citation of articles in the public domain.

Journal “Eurasian Union of Scientists. Series: economic and legal sciences” supports the I4OC standard and transfers structured data about publications to the Crossref service as part of the participation in the Crossref's Cited-by service. This approach allows us to process data and synchronize them with libraries and citation databases, effectively track links to publications, and analyze the scientometric rating of researchers who are our authors. Participation of the scientific journal “Eurasian Union of Scientists. Series: economic and legal sciences” in the I4OC initiative allows our authors to post their articles in open access for optimal search, reading, use and citation of publications. The publication can create new services based on open citation data for publishers, academic institutions, organizations and readers. Those interested in scientific literature can view the open citation schedule and explore the relationship between areas of scientific knowledge and the development of scientific disciplines.