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+ # πŸŽ“ OpenAlex: The World's Scholarly Knowledge Graph
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+ > **174M scholarly works** from the world's largest open bibliographic database
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+ **OpenAlex Homepage:** https://openalex.org
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+ **API Documentation:** https://docs.openalex.org
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+ **Paper:** https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01833
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+ ## What is OpenAlex?
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+ πŸŽ“ **OpenAlex** is a free and open catalog of the global research system, containing metadata for **250M+ scholarly works**, **90M+ authors**, **120K+ venues**, and **100K+ institutions**. Named after the ancient Library of Alexandria, it serves as the successor to Microsoft Academic Graph.
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+ This Hugging Face dataset provides a streamlined subset of **174M scholarly works** with rich metadata, making it easy to:
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+ - πŸ“Š Analyze research trends across disciplines
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+ - πŸ”— Build citation networks and knowledge graphs
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+ - πŸ€– Train models for academic text understanding
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+ - πŸ” Develop scholarly search and recommendation systems
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+ ## Dataset Overview
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+ ### Quick Stats
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+ - **174M scholarly works** (papers, books, datasets, etc.)
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+ - **Multi-disciplinary coverage**: Medicine, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science, Social Sciences, and more
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+ - **Rich metadata**: Titles, abstracts, authors, institutions, citations, concepts, and open access status
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+ - **Time span**: Publications from 1800s to present
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+ - **Languages**: Primarily English, with multilingual content
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+ ### Key Features
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+ βœ… **Comprehensive Metadata**
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+ - Unique identifiers (DOI, OpenAlex ID, arXiv, PubMed)
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+ - Publication details (title, date, venue, language)
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+ - Author and institutional affiliations
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+ - Citation counts and referenced works
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+ βœ… **Open Access Information**
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+ - OA status and licensing
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+ - Repository locations
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+ - Full-text availability
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+ βœ… **Concept Tagging**
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+ - Hierarchical subject classification
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+ - Auto-generated topic tags
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+ - Cross-disciplinary connections
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+ βœ… **Quality Indicators**
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+ - Publication types
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+ - Peer review status
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+ - Citation metrics
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+ ## Usage
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+ ### Loading the Dataset
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+ ```python
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+ from datasets import load_dataset
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+ # Load a sample (recommended for exploration)
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+ dataset = load_dataset("sumuks/openalex", split="train", streaming=True)
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+ # Iterate through examples
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+ for paper in dataset.take(100):
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+ print(f"Title: {paper['title']}")
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+ print(f"Year: {paper['publication_year']}")
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+ print(f"Citations: {paper['cited_by_count']}")
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+ print("---")
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+ ```
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+ ## License
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+ This dataset is released under the **Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By) v1.0**, following OpenAlex's commitment to open science. You are free to share and adapt this data with proper attribution.
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+ ## Citation
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+ If you use this dataset, please cite:
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @article{priem2022openalex,
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+ title={OpenAlex: A fully-open index of scholarly works, authors, venues, institutions, and concepts},
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+ author={Priem, Jason and Piwowar, Heather and Orr, Richard},
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+ journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.01833},
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+ year={2022}
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+ }
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+ ```
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+ ## Acknowledgments
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+ Special thanks to:
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+ - The [OurResearch](https://ourresearch.org/) team for creating and maintaining OpenAlex
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+ - [Arcadia Fund](https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/) for funding OpenAlex development
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+ - The academic community for supporting open science initiatives
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+ **Questions or Issues?** Open a discussion in the [Community tab](https://huggingface.co/datasets/sumuks/openalex/discussions) or visit [OpenAlex Help](https://help.openalex.org/)