Welcome! - OpenAlex documentation

"OpenAlex is a fully open catalog of the global research system. It's named after the ancient Library of Alexandria. The OpenAlex dataset describes scholarly entities and how those entities are connected to each other. There are five types of entities: 📄 Works are papers, books, datasets, etc; they cite other works 👩 Authors are people who create works 📚 Venues are journals and repositories that host works 🏫 Institutions are universities and other orgs that are affiliated with works (via authors) 💡 Concepts tag Works with a topic Together, these make a huge web (or more technically, heterogeneous directed graph) of of hundreds of millions of entities and over a billion connections between them all...."