The OpenAIRE Research Graph: Science as a public good

The OpenAIRE Research Graph is one of the largest (if not the largest) collections of
metadata and links (~1Bi) between research entities such as articles (100M+), datasets
(12Mi+), software (180K+), and other research products (7Mi+) and entities like
organizations, funders (~30), funding streams, projects (3.5Mi+), research communities, and
data sources. The Graph delivers to researchers, funders, communities, publishers, citizens,
and companies an up-to-date, global map of science, across countries and disciplines, which
is open and transparent and they can use to produce science and innovation. Its metadata
and links are either collected (“harvested”) from 12K data sources (e.g.
institutional/data/software repositories, publishers, registries) or inferred via full-text mining
an ever-increasing collection of 14Mi+ articles. Conceived as a public and transparent good,
populated out of data sources trusted by scientists, the OpenAIRE Research Graph aims at
bringing discovery, monitoring, and assessment of science back in the hands of the scientific
community and society. The Graph can be freely accessed via the OpenAIRE EXPLORE
portal and CONNECT portals for communities, via the PROVIDE APIs, or via data dumps
made available via a dedicated community in Zenodo.org. Its APIs count today 2Bi accesses
per year, via OpenAIRE portals and as third-party services requests. Elsevier Scopus relies
on the service, as well as researchers and other companies and scholarly services
worldwide.