Funding metadata in OpenAlex: where are they now?

With a grant from Wellcome, OpenAlex is working to improve its coverage of funding metadata. The three-year project started in September 2025, and the effects are already visible. Building on an earlier study, we show that OpenAlex is already performing almost as well as Dimensions.

March 31, 2026

More open abstracts?

Abstracts are increasingly important given the rise of large language models (LLM) and generative AI. While OpenAlex provides a source of open abstracts in addition to Crossref, the takedown of abstracts from OpenAlex by two major publishers points to an increased commodification of abstracts.

November 24, 2024

Comments on EC Council Conclusions on scholarly publishing

On May 23, 2023, the Council of the European Union approved a set of conclusions on ‘High-quality, transparent, open, trustworthy and equitable scholarly publishing’. In this post, I summarize some of my thoughts on these conclusions.

June 4, 2023