OpenAlex

Jason Priem, Heather Piwowar, Richard Orr

Type: corpus
Venue: OpenAlex (OurResearch, nonprofit)
Year: 2026
Source: web
Access: free
Language: Multilingual (works from all languages)
Added: 2026-07-17T20:18:03.742405+00:00
Verified: 2026-07-17T20:18:03.742405+00:00

Summary

OpenAlex is a fully-open catalog of the global research system, indexing 316 million scholarly works (articles, dissertations, datasets, preprints) linked to 100 million authors, 100,000 institutions, 200,000 journals/repositories, and over 2 billion citation links. All data is CC0 licensed and available via a REST API and complete database snapshot, serving as an open alternative to Scopus and Web of Science with significantly broader coverage including non-English works.

Keywords

scholarly metadata bibliometrics open-access citations api research cc0 open-science

Topics

Scholarly Metadata / Bibliometrics

Research notes

Successor to Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG). A 14-year-old nonprofit (OurResearch). XPAC expansion (Nov 2025) added 190M+ works including DataCite and institutional repositories. Paper: arxiv 2205.01833.