openalex.org
OpenAlex
Who runs OpenAlex, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest bibliographic database alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Scopus
Measured from OpenAlex’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit OpenAlex01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs OpenAlex
OpenAlex openalex.org
OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
Wikidata: open catalog of scholarly papers, authors, institutions, venues, and concepts
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What OpenAlex tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 12 alternatives below has fewer; 10 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
- EU company
- 1 tool
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to OpenAlex
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to OpenAlex, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to OpenAlex match.
- 01
Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool
Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research.
Very close - 02
Dimensions AI | The most advanced scientific research database
From idea to impact: Quickly navigate and connect grants, publications, datasets, clinical trials, patents, and policy documents.
Very close - 03
The Lens - Patent and Scholarly Search and Analysis
The Lens serves all the patents and scholarly work in the world as an open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus.
Very close - 04
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
RePEc is a central index of economics research, including working papers, articles and software code
Very close - 05
WorldCat.org
WorldCat.org is a global catalog of library materials. You can search for books, music, video, articles and much more at libraries near you.
Very close - 06
EconLit
Close - 07
Crossref
Crossref is open infrastructure linking the world's research. 26,500 members, 171 countries, 2.1 billion monthly API queries.
Very close - 08
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close - 09
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Very close - 10
Sistema de Información Científica Redalyc, Red de Revistas Científicas
Sistema de Información Científica Redalyc. Red de Revistas Científicas. Acceso abierto sin fines de lucro propiedad de la academia. Modelo de acceso abierto diamante.
Very close - 11
万方数据知识服务平台-科研学习全流程支持服务平台
万方数据知识服务平台与全球国内外30余家大型数据库集成商、出版商、公益机构达成战略合作，整合数亿条全球优质学术资源，集成期刊、学位、会议、专利、科技报告、成果、标准、法规、地方志、视频等十余种学术资源类型。平台基于先进的人工智能技术，打造涵盖资源发现、学术不端检测、学术分析、学科选题以及知识管理等领域的智能化平台与工具，为用户提供海量资源的统一检索发现和获取、学术科研的全流程服务，帮助用户精准的发现知识、便捷的获取知识、更愉悦的创造知识。
Very close - 12
Brazil
digital library
Very close - 13
维普网
维普官方网站-一站式学术资源检索平台，汇聚国内外期刊、会议论文、学位论文、专利、报纸等多元化学术资源，覆盖广泛学术领域，满足您各类学术需求；采用先进的智能检索技术，支持多维度检索，同时提供高级检索、专业检索等模式，满足不同用户的精细化需求；提供文献引证追踪、科学指标分析等功能，助用户洞悉学术脉络，把握研究前沿；支持在线阅读、一键下载等多种便捷功能，让用户随时随地享受学术盛宴。个性化设置功能，让学术空间更加贴合个人需求，提升科研效率。
Very close - 14
Home - DBpedia Association
DBpedia provides a platform for data, tools and services. Explore current projects and applications and learn about DBpedia datasets.
Very close - 15
Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Very close - 16
Making sure you're not a bot!
legal database
Very close - 17
MusicBrainz - the open music encyclopedia
online music metadata database
Very close - 18
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Very close - 19
arXiv.org e-Print archive
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
Very close - 20
peer-reviewed open-access journal
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles OpenAlex’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones OpenAlex uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what OpenAlex adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,203
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 34 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to OpenAlex’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Plausible asset https://plausible.io/js/script.file-downloads.outbound-links.pageview-props.tagged-events…
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk page source: static.zdassets.com
- Security
- Cloudflare Turnstile page source: challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577a2c1def9b1e5-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS adam.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=jKpiKFDnjm5idqlvLRY6IcEQlGhKRDp2evcIjhN-nFo
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 10/20
- Google Workspace 10/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on openalex.org 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on openalex.org 7/20
- jQuery · not on openalex.org 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on openalex.org 5/20
- Google Analytics · not on openalex.org 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on openalex.org 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on openalex.org 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on openalex.org 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on openalex.org 3/20
- Google Fonts 3/20
- PHP · not on openalex.org 3/20
- Zendesk 3/20