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| Producer | OurResearch |
|---|---|
| History | 2022 |
| Coverage | |
| Disciplines | Science, social science, arts, humanities (supports 256 disciplines) |
| Record depth | Citation indexing, author, topic title, subject keywords, abstract, periodical title, author's address, publication year |
| Format coverage | Articles, reviews, editorials, chronologies, abstracts, proceedings (journals and book-based), technical papers |
| Links | |
| Website | openalex.org |
OpenAlex is a bibliographic catalogue of scientific papers, authors and institutions accessible in open access mode, named after the Library of Alexandria. It started operating in January 2022 by OurResearch as a successor of the terminated Microsoft Academic Graph. OpenAlex competes with commercial products such as Clarivate's Web of Science or Elsevier's Scopus, and is complemented by Bibliometrics tools and an API.[1][2]
Because of its use of artificial intelligence and automatic algorithms to index articles, OpenAlex contains many superfluous or false entries, often resulting in catalogue entries that do not reflect scientific community standards for publication. For example, OpenAlex indexes a thread on an automotive enthusiast website[3] as a closed-access journal article in the biomedical engineering field: titled thump in drive train as I begin to drive forward. 245 A/T and written by the author DogsRGood.[4]
- ^ Singh Chawla, Dalmeet (24 January 2022). "Massive open index of scholarly papers launches". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-022-00138-y. PMID 35075274. S2CID 246278314.
- ^ Simard, Marc-André & Basson, Isabel & Hare, Madelaine & Larivière, Vincent & Mongeon, Philippe. (2023). The value of a diamond: Understanding global coverage of diamond Open Access journals in Web of Science, Scopus, and OpenAlex to support an open future.
- ^ "RWD - thump in drive train as I begin to drive forward. 245 A/T". Archived from the original on 6 October 2024.
- ^ "OpenAlex: thump in drive train as I begin to drive forward. 245 A/T". Archived from the original on 6 October 2024.