Bioregistry - OpenAlex

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

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

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE openalex:W2741809807 is used to demonstrate the provides available for openalex. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

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'