The OpenAlex dataset describes scholarly entities and how those entities are connected to each other. Together, these make a huge web (or more technically, heterogeneous directed graph) of hundreds of millions of entities and billions of connections between them all.
Learn more about the OpenAlex entities:
- Works: Scholarly documents like journal articles, books, datasets, and theses
- Authors: People who create works
- Sources: Where works are hosted (such as journals, conferences, and repositories)
- Institutions: Universities and other organizations to which authors claim affiliations
- Concepts: Topics assigned to works
- Publishers: Companies and organizations that distribute works
- Geo: Where things are in the world