OpenAlex Scholarly Publications

Researcher profiles and their top publications from OpenAlex, the world's largest open catalog of scholarly works. This collection focuses on NIH-funded investigators who have ORCID identifiers.

Record types

researcher

• display_name — Author's full name
• orcid — ORCID persistent identifier
• current_institution — Most recent institutional affiliation
• h_index — h-index metric
• cited_by_count — Total citation count
• works_count — Number of published works
• research_topics — Top research areas (comma-separated)

publication

• title — Publication title
• doi — Digital Object Identifier
• publication_year — Year published
• cited_by_count — Times cited
• journal — Journal or venue name
• open_access — Whether the work is OA
• author_orcid — ORCID of the linked researcher
• author_name — Author display name
• author_h_index — Author's h-index at time of collection

Cross-collection linking

The orcid field on researchers and author_orcid on publications enable joins with other ORCID-bearing collections (e.g. NIH grants via pi_orcid, faculty search via candidate_orcid, department grants via investigator_orcid).

Source & license

Data from OpenAlex (CC0). See https://openalex.org/ for details.