About the data

Sources
OpenAlex is not doing this alone! Rather, we're aggregating and standardizing data from a whole bunch of other great projects, like a river fed by many tributaries. Our two most important data sources are MAG and Crossref. Other key sources include:
​ORCID​
​ROR​
​DOAJ​
​Unpaywall​
​Pubmed​
​Pubmed Central​
​The ISSN International Centre​
​The General Index​
Web crawls
Subject-area and institutional repositories from arXiv to Zenodo and everywhere in between
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Concept
Known issues
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