"Open MIND" source showing ~2M works

[Yusuf Ozkan]

Hi all,

I've been looking into a source entry in OpenAlex called "Open MIND | OpenAlex" which appears to be indexed as a repository containing nearly 2 million works.

As far as I can tell, this doesn't match any real repository of that scale. The only "Open MIND" I can find that fits the name is a small, one-time open-access philosophy/cognitive-science collection (open-mind.net), containing 39 target papers plus commentaries and replies, so well under a few hundred works total, not millions. There's also an unrelated MIT Press journal called *Open Mind* (cognitive science), but that's a normal-sized journal too, nowhere near 2M works.

So the nearly 2M-works source labeled "Open MIND" seems to be a mislabeled or misattributed entity unless there is any other reasonable explanation.

Does anyone know what Open MIND is or if this has been noticed or discussed before? 

Best wishes,

Yusuf

[Gabor Schubert]

Hi Yusuf,

I previously observed some similar mislabeled sources on large scale. I lifted some examples in a comment of a previous thread: https://groups.google.com/g/openalex-community/c/l9wMvJeDVFg/m/tqkDQjwoAgAJ

One of the examples "SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología" with 1.3 million objects has been corrected since then (https://openalex.org/sources/s112646816), but the other one "Medical Entomology and Zoology" still has 1.8 million objects (https://openalex.org/sources/s4210197683). Actually this source is the largest "journal type" source in OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/works?page=1&filter=primary_location.source.type:journal . In reality this journal has probably a few thousands published objects maximum. I also reported this to OpenAlex about a year ago, but it is still unresolved.

Best,

Gabor Schubert

[Eric Schares]

Similar for the source View. OpenAlex credits it with a large section of Green OA articles. It seems to be confused with a repository that has a large and prominent "View" button on the HTML landing page (attached).

https://openalex.org/works/W7028796094

Eric

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