At least until org-mode supports it natively, here is how I added C-c C-c support to citations. It is easy to make it do what you want, I chose follow in this code, (you can insert from the follow menu).

https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref-cite/blob/main/org-ref-cite-follow.el#L305


John

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On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 10:20 AM Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@posteo.de> wrote:

On 2021-07-28 Wed 15:12, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> Titus' second question got lost a bit, but does anyone have an answer?
>
> I have the same issue, but was thinking clicking should run org-open-at-point.

To avoid misunderstandings, I agree that a mouse click should run org-open-at-point.  However, for C-c C-c it it would perhaps be more useful if it would run org-cite-insert.  (On ordinary org links C-c C-c doesn’t appear to do anything.)

  Titus

>
> I know some other people do get clickable links, so am wondering if
> it's a config issue?
>
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 10:47 AM Titus von der Malsburg
> <malsburg@posteo.de> wrote:
>
>> 2. The oc-basic processor makes citations look like clickable links (blue, underlined, mouse pointer changes to finger), but when I click on them, nothing happens.  I can only follow a references via `org-open-at-point'.  It would be good to make citations clickable.  I also suggest allowing users to follow links via C-c C-c which currently doesn’t do anything on citations.  The other obvious action that C-c C-c could trigger would be `org-cite-insert'.  Not sure what’s better.