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      • Source object
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      • Institution object
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      • Topic object
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      • Publisher object
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      • Funder object
      • Get a single funder
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      • Continents
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      • Concept object
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  1. API Entities

Geo

Where things are in the world

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Last updated 1 year ago

While geo is not a core entity within OpenAlex, geography is central to categorizing scholarly data. That's why OpenAlex uses United Nations data to divide the globe into continents and regions that makes filtering data easier.

Here are some ways you can filter and group by continents and the .

  • Get institutions located in South America

  • Get works where at least one author's institution is located in the Global South

  • Group highly-cited authors by their last known institution's continent

What's next

Learn more about what you can do with geo:

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Global South
https://api.openalex.org/institutions?filter=continent:south_america
https://api.openalex.org/works?filter=institutions.is\_global\_south:true
https://api.openalex.org/authors?group-by=last\_known\_institution.continent\&filter=cited\_by\_count:>100
Continents
Regions