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OpenAlex | REMOTE | https://openalex.org | senior frontend eng. & product owner We're a small nonprofit on a mission inspired by the ancient Library of Alexandria: to create a univ…

Thanks for the kudos! I'm very glad we've been able to help out!

Agreed, the author disambiguation isn't quiet as good as Scopus'...they have a bit of a head start on us. But we're improving it quickly. Thanks for the suggestion about the data d…

To be clear, this is a project isn't affiliated with SMU, they just did the blog post...it's from a nonprofit called OurResearch (source: I'm a cofounder). We did have some good co…

If you go that route, you may also want to check out these community-contributed Python and R libraries: https://docs.openalex.org/api#client-libraries

We emphasize the API because imho a well-documented, high-throughput API is something really lacking in the ecosystem right now. Dealing with a dataset this size (200M works, 200M …

Jason here, cofounder of OurResearch, the nonprofit behind OpenAlex. I appreciate everyone's feedback! Happy to answer any questions.

Hi, one of the devs here! If you want to see a cool example of Unpaywall in action, check out the Nature paper [1] published last month about TRAPPIST-1, the nearby solar system wi…

I love that they're using actual network data to build this list, not just a "who's who" based on someone's general impressions. There is so much potential in applying this kind of…

Yes, agreed...we've had lots of requests to add other languages. And as you say, the growing popularity of GitHub gives us all kinds of cool data even when there's no central packa…

Yep, we chose CRAN for the MVP, since it's the main R package host. But adding other sources is the plan, and Bioconductor is at the top of that list for R.

It is indeed interesting, and as you suspect it has attracted some attention. Check out "nanopubs,"( http://nanopub.org ), or Simon Buckingham Shum's very cool work on ScholOnto ( …

And if you'd like a yet more comprehensive list of these "comment on scientific papers" sites, here's a community-curated list of 'em I started...there's around 50 listed now I thi…