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🏛️OpenAlex Q1 town hall

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Welcome & introduction(15min)

  • Welcome & Introduction: 2 minutes
  • Last year in review:15 minutes
  • Coming up in Q1: 15 minutes
    • Walden
    • Analytics app
    • Community curation
    • New hires
    • Advisory board
  • Maybe in Q2: 5 minutes
    • grants
  • Q&A: 10 minutes

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Last year (15min)

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Last year

  • Org
  • Data
  • Product
  • Community

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Last year: org

  • We received a 5-year grant from Arcadia totalling $7.5M to establish OpenAlex as a sustainably open index of the global research ecosystem
  • We received a 2-year grant from the Navigation Fund totaling $688k to enhance the OpenAlex user interface
  • We hired a Chief Operating Officer (Kyle Demes) and Senior Frontend Developer (Brett Lockspeiser)
  • Our Premium subscriptions exceeded our first year’s sustainability target by 25%

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Last year: data

  • We started parsing fulltext PDFs to add more affiliation and reference metadata
  • We started matching references without DOIs (we now have 2.5B citations)
  • We added HAL as a primary source for new works
  • We started ingesting DataCite as a primary source. We now have 6.4M DataCite records (we’ll have them all in a few months)
  • We enhanced metadata accuracy for work type, publication year, author, institution, source, open access status, and more
  • Our data was adopted by three major University rankings:
    • CWTS Open Leiden Rankings;
    • Financial Times Business School Research Ranking; and
    • THE Interdisciplinary Science Rankings
  • Our data was featured in a Science News article examining the sustainability of APC feeds paid by researchers

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Last year: product

  • We launched our Beta User Interface
  • We launched a new aboutness classification system (topics → subfields → fields → domains)
  • We launched new normalized citation metrics (field-weighted citation impact and citation percentiles) to facilitate comparison across fields and years.
  • We introduced user curation for affiliation, author, source, and work-level metadata and have already received more than 10k requests
  • We expanded our offerings of paid services to help us get to sustainability faster
  • We laid the foundation for an exciting new analytics product we’re looking forward to showing off early next year

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Last year: product: curation

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Last year: community

  • Monthly users of OpenAlex.org have grown from 28k at the beginning of the year to 78k, now representing 440k visits per month!
  • Our first OpenAlex User Meeting was a huge success with 27 presentations from OpenAlex users in diverse organizations around the world
  • We attended 9 conferences to promote OpenAlex and engage with our user community globally: Research Analytics Summit, CARA, BRIC, ICSSI, Make Data Count, LIS, STI, SRAI, The Charleston Conference and were truly humbled to see presenters and vendors at every conference using OpenAlex data!
  • We launched a YouTube channel which now has 49 videos, 736 subscribers, and almost 25,000 views!
  • Over 500 publications mention or reference OpenAlex and that number grows daily!
  • We hosted an open call for our first Community Advisory Board where 50+ stellar nominees received almost 1,400 votes from the community– stay tuned for an announcement of results in early 2025

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Q1 plans(15min)

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Q1 plans

  • Advisory board
  • New hires
  • Community curation
  • Walden
  • Analytics app

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Q1: curation: merge/delete

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Q1: curation: add

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Q1: walden

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Q1: analytics app

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Q2 plans(5min)

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Q2 plans

  • Funders coverage
  • source party

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questions!