Definition
Plain language
A free online index of computer-science publications.
As stated in the literature
A curated bibliographic database of computer-science papers and their authors; used as one of RefChecker's six reference catalogs.
Why it matters: It gives a trustworthy index for confirming computer-science papers and their authors when verifying citations.
For example, someone tracing a computer scientist's publications can browse their full paper list on DBLP.
Heard on the show
“Stage two: check each reference against six big bibliographic catalogs — Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, CrossRef, DBLP, the ACL Anthology, and direct identifier lookups like DOIs and arXiv.”Episode 201 — One in Four NeurIPS Papers Cites a Reference That Doesn't Exist