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# π 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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π **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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- π Analyze research trends across disciplines
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- π Build citation networks and knowledge graphs
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- π€ Train models for academic text understanding
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- π 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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**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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**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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**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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**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/)
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