Registry OpenAlex

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

Providers

Suggest

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. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name	Metaprefix	URI
OpenAlex	`openalex`	https://openalex.org/W2741809807
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/openalex:W2741809807

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("openalex")
'https://openalex.org/'

Get the contact's name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_name("openalex")
'Heather Piwowar'

Get the contact's email:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_email("openalex")
'hpiwowar@gmail.com'

Get the contact's GitHub handle:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_github("openalex")
'hpiwowar'

Get the contact's ORCiD identifier:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_orcid("openalex")
'0000-0003-1613-5981'