OpenAlex is a fully open catalog of the global research system that describes scholarly entities and how those entities are connected to each other.

Prefix

openalex

Keywords

knowledge graph wikidata

Links

Homepage Request Discussion

Contact

Heather Piwowar   0000-0003-1613-5981   hpiwowar

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in OpenAlex should match this regular expression:
^[WAICV]\d{2,}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

W2741809807   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from OpenAlex should match this regular expression:
^openalex:[WAICV]\d{2,}$

Example CURIE

openalex:W2741809807

Contributors

• submitter Daniel Himmelstein   0000-0002-3012-7446   dhimmel

Reviewer

Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier W2741809807 is used to demonstrate the providers available for OpenAlex. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.