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
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
Contributor: 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'