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OpenAlex: Features, advantages and limitations of an open database

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16434

“The results reveal numerous records lacking abstracts, affiliations and references; deficiencies in identifying document types and languages; and issues with authority control and versioning. Although OpenAlex has been adopted in important initiatives and has yielded results comparable to those obtained with commercial databases, gaps in its metadata and a lack of consistency point to a need for intensive data cleaning, suggesting it should be used with caution. The study concludes by identifying three lines of action to improve data quality: increasing publishers’ commitment to completing metadata in primary sources; creating coordination structures to channel the contributions of institutional users; and endowing the project with sufficient human resources and reliable procedures to address internal quality control tasks and user support requests.”

Klaus Graf
Klaus Graf
Historiker und Archivar, Blogger

OpenEdition schlägt Ihnen vor, diesen Beitrag wie folgt zu zitieren:
Klaus Graf (23. Dezember 2025). OpenAlex: Features, advantages and limitations of an open database. Archivalia. Abgerufen am 7. August 2026 von https://doi.org/10.58079/15evp


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