🏛️OpenAlex Q1 town hall

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)

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

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)

Q1 plans

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

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Q1: curation: merge/delete

Q1: curation: add

Q1: walden

Q1: analytics app

Q2 plans(5min)

Q2 plans

• Funders coverage
• source party

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questions!