OpenAlex
Service
OpenAlex is a bibliographic catalogue of scientific papers, authors and institutions accessible in open access mode, named after the Library of Alexandria. It started operating in January 2022 by OurResearch as a successor of the terminated Microsoft Academic Graph. OpenAlex competes with commercial products such as Clarivate's Web of Science or Elsevier's Scopus, and is complemented by bibliometrics tools and an API. OpenAlex is challenging Web of Science and Scopus as a free, open-source research index, which covers over 200 million scholarly works.
Related work
- Paper Scout Oct 2026
An agent that supports the SKILL.md standard (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI) reads the skill's instructions and drives a single Python script, scripts/scout.py, through a fixed sequence: Search OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar and arXiv with three to six search strings written from different angles.
- Research Dossier Oct 2026
The repository includes the real run on galaxy merger histories used across the suite: 114 papers from OpenAlex and arXiv.
In the knowledge graph
OpenAlex and the 2 things it is linked to. Open any dot for its page, or explore it in the full graph.
As data
Everything on this page is read from triples in the knowledge graph. These are the 3 it states about OpenAlex, and 1 more its ontology implies; the console runs SPARQL over the whole graph, here in your browser.
@prefix id: <https://ask.chaipat.cc/id/> . @prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> . @prefix cj: <https://ask.chaipat.cc/ns#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> . id:OpenAlex a cj:Service ; rdfs:label "OpenAlex" ; schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAlex> .