New study shows OpenAlex is a good alternative to Scopus for demographic research - OurResearch blog

" Highlights New research from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research analyzes global migration of scholars, using bibliometric data. They do a side-by-side comparison of this analysis between Scopus and OpenAlex data. Counts of scholars by country are highly correlated between Scopus and OpenAlex. Migration events are less correlated between the two, but trends in migration between top pairs of countries are consistent between them. There is higher correlation with Western countries, and OpenAlex has more coverage of non-Western countries. OpenAlex is open. Scopus is not. This puts limits on how researchers can perform and share this type of analysis...."