Can the World’s Research Ecosystem be Openly Indexed? | Katina Magazine
peter.suber's bookmarks 2025-01-09
Summary:
"OpenAlex (Priem et al., 2022) is a free, web-based academic search engine and comprehensive bibliographic catalog of scientific authors, institutions, and publications that has gained attention for its free-to-use datasets, user-friendly interface, and effective indexing of diamond open access journals. It has indexed over 260 million scholarly works from 260,800 sources (OpenAlex, 2024l) and continues to grow.
This review evaluates the latest version of OpenAlex, which has a significantly improved graph data model and offers a valuable alternative to traditional citation databases for scientists and research institutions (Simard, 2024; Tay et al., 2021)...."