How to Cite Polymarket Data

Reviewers need four reproducibility fields beyond the identifier: the capture window (250ms grid), the filter or series you queried, the defect-flag treatment, and the verified-as-of date of the underlying market record.

The site's factual pages carry their verification dates and the dataset ships its methodology — the citation just has to point at both.

DOI versioning means data changes name a change: a study that cites the exact version can be re-verified against that exact rows, and an archive that adds markets does not rewrite history.

The honest practice is to cite the version you analyzed and, where you use later data, state both — the same rule this site applies to its own corpus numbers.

Citation quality is evidence quality: an uncited column is a claim, and a study that cites the dataset, the window, and the flags is a study its reviewers can reproduce — which is the whole point of building a citable record.

A data citation is a recipe for reproduction: the DOI or version, the market slug, the window, and the row source so the same series can be re-queried years later. For the archive that means naming the recorded grid (250ms UTC) and the resolution frame you used.

The style templates below are deliberately short because the reproducibility burden sits on the metadata, not the prose — a citation that can be re-run is worth more than one that can be read.

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