dblp
dblp is a computer science bibliography website for searching curated publication records, authors, conferences, journals, series, repositories, XML dumps, RDF data, and linked research metadata.
What dblp is
dblp is a computer science bibliography website at dblp.org. It provides curated bibliographic records for computer science publications, authors, conferences, journals, series, books, theses, repositories, and research artifacts.
A curated bibliography
The core value of dblp is curation. Instead of only crawling the web, dblp organizes publication metadata into consistent records with authors, venues, years, titles, links, and export formats. That makes it useful for researchers who need clean bibliographic information rather than a general web search result.
Authors, venues, and publications
Users can search by author, publication title, venue, or combined query. Author pages collect a person's indexed works, while venue pages collect journals, conference proceedings, workshops, series, and related records. These pages help users inspect research histories, publication venues, and collaboration patterns in computer science.
Open metadata and downloads
dblp makes its metadata available as open data under the CC0 1.0 license. The website links to raw data downloads, including XML and RDF dumps, and offers export formats such as BibTeX, XML, JSON, and JSONP for search results. This makes dblp useful for citation management, bibliometric analysis, and software tools.
RDF and SPARQL
The dblp SPARQL service lets users explore semantic content from the dblp bibliography. RDF and SPARQL matter when users want to query relationships between publications, authors, venues, years, and other entities as linked data instead of downloading or parsing individual records by hand.
What it does not do
dblp is not primarily a full-text repository or peer-review system. It usually points outward to publishers, digital libraries, preprint servers, archives, and other services for documents. A dblp record tells you that a bibliographic item is indexed and connected to metadata, not that the full text is freely available or that a paper is high quality.
Strengths and limits
dblp is strongest for computer science publication discovery, author disambiguation, venue browsing, and open bibliographic metadata. Its limits include field scope, incomplete or delayed records, author-name ambiguity, venue changes, and the fact that citation counts and full-text access usually come from other services.
Why it matters
Computer science moves quickly through conferences, workshops, preprints, journals, and proceedings. dblp matters because it gives that literature a stable bibliographic map, helping researchers, librarians, students, and software systems find publications and connect them to people and venues.
WHOIS domain data
Data pulled: June 1, 2026View current WHOIS record
- Domain
- dblp.org
- IP address
- 192.76.146.204
- Registrar
- COREhub, S.R.L.
- WHOIS server
- whois.corehub.net
- Referral URL
- http://www.corehub.net
- Created
- December 11, 2005
- Updated
- March 17, 2025
- Expires
- December 11, 2026
- Nameservers
- ns3.edns.de (154.56.104.3); ns4.edns.de (149.13.77.2)
- Domain status
- clientTransferProhibited
- Registrant contact
- Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik GmbH, Saarland, DE
- Admin contact
- Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik GmbH, Saarland, DE
- Technical contact
- Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik GmbH, Saarland, DE
- Billing contact
- Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik GmbH, Saarland, DE