DS-020Science & HealthGlobalHISTORICAL DATA
OpenAlex
OpenAlex
Open global research knowledge graph
An open graph linking works, authors, institutions, sources, topics, funders, and citations for stories about knowledge diffusion and research inequality.
“How does a research topic spread across borders, and which institutions connect first?”
UPDATE
Continuously maintained API · free snapshot quarterly
COVERAGE
Global · hundreds of millions of works, authors, and institutions
ACCESS
Free API key / free quarterly snapshot
LICENSE SUMMARY
CC0
AVAILABLE FORMATS
JSON · REST API · JSONL · GZIP
LICENSE
CC0 for the complete OpenAlex dataset
ATTRIBUTION
Attribution is not legally required; research use should cite the OpenAlex paper and record the snapshot or query date.
PRE-PUBLISH CHECK
Review the official license basis ↗Recheck the free API allowance, snapshot date, and field definitions; linked full text, publisher pages, and other third-party content do not become open through the metadata license.