Entities overview

The OpenAlex dataset describes scholarly entities and how those entities are connected to each other. Together, these make a huge web (or more technically, heterogeneous directed graph) of hundreds of millions of entities and billions of connections between them all.

Learn more about the OpenAlex entities:

• Works: Scholarly documents like journal articles, books, datasets, and theses

• Authors: People who create works

• Sources: Where works are hosted (such as journals, conferences, and repositories)

• Institutions: Universities and other organizations to which authors claim affiliations

• Topics: Topics assigned to works

• Publishers: Companies and organizations that distribute works

• Funders: Organizations that fund research

• Geo: Where things are in the world