Specialist information General

Specialist information General

OpenAlex - Open data for science
OpenAlex offers free access to millions of scientific publications - linked to authors, institutions, research areas and citation data. Ideal for researching, analysing and bibliometric evaluations - even without prior knowledge of data science.
OpenAlex is a freely accessible, comprehensive database. It offers structured metadata on millions of publications - from specialist articles and conference papers to preprints - and links them together.
A key advantage: OpenAlex also provides detailed citation data. This allows you to understand how often and in what context a publication is cited, identify research streams and analyse the scientific influence of individual works or authors.
Researchers can use OpenAlex to search literature, investigate networks, identify trends or carry out their own bibliometric analyses. The data is available free of charge, machine-readable and can be searched interactively as well as integrated into your own applications via API.
Further information and comparison with Web of Science and Scopus, among others

Another open science database is Matilda.

Management

Dr Jens Mittelbach