OpenAlex
OpenAlex is a free, open catalog of the global research system. It indexes scholarly works together with their authors, sources (venues such as journals and repositories), institutions, publishers, funders, and concepts/topics, and captures the relationships among them. Built and maintained by the nonprofit OurResearch, it is the successor to the discontinued Microsoft Academic Graph and is available through an open API and a full downloadable data snapshot.
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