Computer science bibliography website, publications, authors, XML, RDF

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.

Official site
dblp.org is the main public website for the dblp computer science bibliography.
Operator
dblp was originally created at the University of Trier in 1993 and is now operated by Schloss Dagstuhl.
Scale
On June 1, 2026, the dblp homepage listed 8,553,179 publications, 4,107,357 authors, 7,122 conferences, and 1,896 journals.
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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