OpenAlex
Overview
OpenAlex is an open data catalog of the global research system. Built by the non-profit, OurResearch, OpenAlex details scholarly entities and how they are connected to each other. Data is derived from a range of underlying sources, offering an overview of academic research and its contributors.
Example topics covered:
- Works - scholarly documents e.g. journal articles, books, theses
- Authors - people who create works
- Concepts - abstract ideas that works are about, including how concepts are hierarchically related
- Institutions - universities and other organizations to which authors claim affiliations
- Funders - organizations that fund research
- Publishers - companies and organizations that distribute journal articles, books, and theses
- Sources - where works are hosted (both the primary host source and alternate host sources), including journals, conferences, preprint repositories, and institutional repositories
Key Attributes
| Geographic Coverage | Global |
| Entity Level | Works, Authors, Concepts, Institutions, Funders, Publishers, Sources |
| Release Frequency | Monthly |
| History | Publication dates for scholarly works date back to 1922 |
Cybersyn Products
Tables above are available in the following Cybersyn data products:
Disclaimers
The data in this product is sourced from OpenAlex.
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