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Eric Jeangirard

Dec 16

OA status inconsistencies

Dear community, I detected some inconsistencies in the open access discovery metadata in OpenAlex,

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OA status inconsistencies

Dear community, I detected some inconsistencies in the open access discovery metadata in OpenAlex,

Dec 16

Ivo Bleylevens, Bianca Kramer2

Dec 14

OA status of SSRN items

Hi Ivo, OpenAlex apparently counts all of SSRN as closed (perhaps because downloading anything from

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OA status of SSRN items

Hi Ivo, OpenAlex apparently counts all of SSRN as closed (perhaps because downloading anything from

Dec 14

Bianca Kramer, … Aaron Tay6

Nov 29

Blogpost comparing abstract coverage in Crossref and OpenAlex

Hi Bianca So far, I have seen only issues with Springer and Elsevier. Not sure about the rest Eg

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Blogpost comparing abstract coverage in Crossref and OpenAlex

Hi Bianca So far, I have seen only issues with Springer and Elsevier. Not sure about the rest Eg

Nov 29

Oct 25

OpenAlex document type classifier

Hi all, recently, I published a blog post about a new OpenAlex document type classifier, that helps

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OpenAlex document type classifier

Hi all, recently, I published a blog post about a new OpenAlex document type classifier, that helps

Oct 25

Matthijs De Zwaan, Samuel Mok2

Oct 17

Unexpected authors in results: bug or misunderstanding?

If you open the list of works by 'Aktuelt Per Halvorsen', https://openalex.org/authors/

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Unexpected authors in results: bug or misunderstanding?

If you open the list of works by 'Aktuelt Per Halvorsen', https://openalex.org/authors/

Oct 17

Oct 9

Alerts for searches - RSS?

Hi Just want to confirm - I found the email alert setting in the web-interface - but I thought there

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Alerts for searches - RSS?

Hi Just want to confirm - I found the email alert setting in the web-interface - but I thought there

Oct 9

Silva, … Bianca Kramer5

Oct 7

Help - references OpenAlex

Hi, thanks for the comment, Samuel. The number of references shown by OpenAlex also differs from the

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Help - references OpenAlex

Hi, thanks for the comment, Samuel. The number of references shown by OpenAlex also differs from the

Oct 7

Letenyei Márta (projekt koordinátor)

Oct 2

Dear ALL! In the attached pictures you can see that the link brings in a blank page, I would like to

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Dear ALL! In the attached pictures you can see that the link brings in a blank page, I would like to

Oct 2

Ed Summers, Samuel Mok2

Oct 2

ORCID assignment

Hi Ed, well, matching data by people's names is a very difficult task; but it is required to

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ORCID assignment

Hi Ed, well, matching data by people's names is a very difficult task; but it is required to

Oct 2

Ed Summers, Samuel Mok2

Oct 2

Works that share DOI?

Hi Ed, The items in your link make complete sense to have the same DOI: they are all letters, and the

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Works that share DOI?

Hi Ed, The items in your link make complete sense to have the same DOI: they are all letters, and the

Oct 2

Harloi Tungao, Massimo Aria2

Sep 26

Biblioshiny DataFrame conversion from OpenAlexR render

Hi, You can download a collection through openalexR as data.frame (oa_fetch() argument output =

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Biblioshiny DataFrame conversion from OpenAlexR render

Hi, You can download a collection through openalexR as data.frame (oa_fetch() argument output =

Sep 26

Sep 23

duplicate results when searching on organization

Since this weekend I am getting duplicate results from the api when searching for my organizations:

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duplicate results when searching on organization

Since this weekend I am getting duplicate results from the api when searching for my organizations:

Sep 23

Y Han, … Samuel Mok4

Sep 20

Running time of fetching records in batch

Thank you Trang and Samuel. I tested run the code with your suggestion. The running time is reduced

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Running time of fetching records in batch

Thank you Trang and Samuel. I tested run the code with your suggestion. The running time is reduced

Sep 20

Sep 13

Hi, I find it useful to process the OpenAlex json files for data mining. In the past I've written

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Hi, I find it useful to process the OpenAlex json files for data mining. In the past I've written

Sep 13

Jason Augustyn2

Sep 13

Issue with affiliation assignments and name disamgibuation

Additional context: There are 44816 author ids that appear in works but have no corresponding record

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Issue with affiliation assignments and name disamgibuation

Additional context: There are 44816 author ids that appear in works but have no corresponding record

Sep 13

Ed Summers, Samuel Mok3

Sep 11

Record location linking

Thanks Samuel, this is super helpful! My apologies for not finding the previous discussion when I did

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Record location linking

Thanks Samuel, this is super helpful! My apologies for not finding the previous discussion when I did

Sep 11

Sep 3

"Works count" link

Dear community members, can someone please explain to me, and I realize it is maybe a very dumb

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"Works count" link

Dear community members, can someone please explain to me, and I realize it is maybe a very dumb

Sep 3

Roger Itai, … Ivo Bleylevens4

Sep 3

Abstracts contents are references

Hi Bianca, i dont have a clue myself... Op maandag 2 september 2024 om 15:10:46 UTC+2 schreef bianca.

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Abstracts contents are references

Hi Bianca, i dont have a clue myself... Op maandag 2 september 2024 om 15:10:46 UTC+2 schreef bianca.

Sep 3

Ivo Bleylevens, … Jason Portenoy4

Sep 2

Field Weighted Citation Index

Since with the release of the latest snapshot also the Citation Normalized Percentile is included,

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Field Weighted Citation Index

Since with the release of the latest snapshot also the Citation Normalized Percentile is included,

Sep 2

Aug 28

How to get historical publication/citation data?

Hi, Question Is there an easy way to query the API to get historical information on a scholar's

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How to get historical publication/citation data?

Hi, Question Is there an easy way to query the API to get historical information on a scholar's

Aug 28

Ivo Bleylevens, … Esther M. Jackson10

Aug 20

Sometimes wrong oa_status and license ?

This is a fascinating discussion that my colleague shared with me as we work with some data of our

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Sometimes wrong oa_status and license ?

This is a fascinating discussion that my colleague shared with me as we work with some data of our

Aug 20

Ivo Bleylevens, Samuel Mok2

Aug 20

Author display names, but no first/last name

Hi Ivo, I agree that it would be nice, but as far as I know OpenAlex never stores separate first/last

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Author display names, but no first/last name

Hi Ivo, I agree that it would be nice, but as far as I know OpenAlex never stores separate first/last

Aug 20

Aug 20

Abstract contents in OpenAlex

Dear readers, I was wondering about the exact contents of the abstract field in OpenAlex. From the

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Abstract contents in OpenAlex

Dear readers, I was wondering about the exact contents of the abstract field in OpenAlex. From the

Aug 20

Samuel Mok, … Rainer M Krug6

Aug 19

Re: [openalex-community-group] Multiple DOI fields

Agreed. On 14 Aug 2024, at 09:49, Bianca Kramer <bianca...@gmail.com> wrote: I would

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Re: [openalex-community-group] Multiple DOI fields

Agreed. On 14 Aug 2024, at 09:49, Bianca Kramer <bianca...@gmail.com> wrote: I would

Aug 19

Ot Garces Ortiz, Samuel Mok3

Aug 6

Institution geographic information within work queries

Good morning Samuel, This is in fact what I was doing to look for the geographical information, so we

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Institution geographic information within work queries

Good morning Samuel, This is in fact what I was doing to look for the geographical information, so we

Aug 6

Jason Portenoy, James Thomas2

Aug 5

Getting more references (citations): brainstorming ideas

Hi Jason, One thing we've noticed is that Works can have more references associated with them in

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Getting more references (citations): brainstorming ideas

Hi Jason, One thing we've noticed is that Works can have more references associated with them in

Aug 5

Aug 1

HTML or Unicode in titles?

Hello, I would like to know if there are any plans to clean up HTML tags in titles such as in

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HTML or Unicode in titles?

Hello, I would like to know if there are any plans to clean up HTML tags in titles such as in

Aug 1

Sol Lederman, Jason Portenoy3

Jul 31

Puzzled about an OpenAlex reference

Thanks, Jason, for hunting down this issue especially given how gnarly it was. I love it that you

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Puzzled about an OpenAlex reference

Thanks, Jason, for hunting down this issue especially given how gnarly it was. I love it that you

Jul 31

Ed Summers, … Gaël Bernard7

Jul 18

API 503 Varnish errors?

Hello everyone, Thanks for the discussion. I ran into the same issue, and without prior knowledge of

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API 503 Varnish errors?

Hello everyone, Thanks for the discussion. I ran into the same issue, and without prior knowledge of

Jul 18

Rainer M Krug, Samuel Mok5

Jul 18

Definition of maximi=um results returned for works?

OK - I managed to split the scheme definition you provided into CREATE TABLE statements and to create

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Definition of maximi=um results returned for works?

OK - I managed to split the scheme definition you provided into CREATE TABLE statements and to create

Jul 18

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