Insights into OpenAlex Data Quality

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Author
Affiliation

Stephan Stahlschmidt

German Centrer for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)

Published

June 24, 2025

The OPENBIB consortium of the Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie (KB) has published its formally internal report “Meilensteinzusammenfassung” on OpenAlex data quality via Zenodo.

This report describes the status of work in the collaboration project OPENBIB within the Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie and provides a recommendation to KB for dealing with OpenAlex from 2025. The focus is on the results of the coverage analysis within the OPENBIB project. In addition, the supporting work of FIZ Karlsruhe in data provision and the KBMINE project with a focus on author identification and Open Access references are presented.

The report presents the following main conclusions:

The report is written in German, but includes a summary in English, and is based on contributions from University Göttingen, German Centre for Higher Education and Science Studies (DZHW), Forschungszentrum Jülich, GESIS, Bielefeld University and FIZ Karlsruhe.

Citation

BibTeX citation:
@online{stahlschmidt2025,
  author = {Stahlschmidt, Stephan},
  title = {Insights into {OpenAlex} {Data} {Quality}},
  date = {2025-06-24},
  url = {http://www.open-bibliometrics.de/posts/20250624-OPENBIBm2Report/},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Stahlschmidt, Stephan. 2025. “Insights into OpenAlex Data Quality.” June 24, 2025. http://www.open-bibliometrics.de/posts/20250624-OPENBIBm2Report/.