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Help and documentation for OpenAlex, the open catalog of the global research system.

Help

Accounts, claiming your author profile, fixing errors, exports — plain answers to common questions.

Docs

What the data means: works, authors, Topics, FWCI, open access — where it comes from and how to read it.

API

The REST API and OQL: endpoints, filters, paging, auth, and rate limits.

Learn

Recipes for real tasks — "how many outputs does my institution have?" — step by step, GUI or API.