Open Data: Global Research Output & Mobility (OpenAlex)
Open Data: Global Research Output & Mobility (OpenAlex) — part of the DataForge Open Data program.
Full production packages, free for academic and personal use under CC BY-NC 4.0 (attribution + backlink required). Same files as served at https://dl.zalize.com/open-data/<package_id> (machine-readable index: https://dl.zalize.com/open-data).
Packages
| Package | Tier | Rows | Size | SHA-256 | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
openalex-tier1-S-2026-08-04 |
S | 305,027 | 0.02 GB | e233d1e941d920063c620c1ed983a7b9b3d5e01b6555226a895170a9f5cd787e |
US institutions: research-output profiles + topic trends + venue master |
openalex-tier1-M-2026-08-04 |
M | 2,487,020 | 0.18 GB | e2304bfb42533f4a189134fdf2793ad5088b9301e1b0f57f607e13a691f3fefd |
Global institution profiles + master, topic trends, source/venue profiles |
openalex-tier1-L-2026-08-04 |
L | 31,798,922 | 2.41 GB | 742391a59675738f897da134006056cfdaf41492ebb9dc75f07d4c3670fa88fc |
Everything in M plus the institution-pair author mobility flow table |
Packages larger than GitHub's 2 GiB asset limit are split into
.partNNvolumes.
Reassemble with:cat <name>.zip.part* > <name>.zipthen verify the SHA-256 above.
Data dictionary & datasheet
Field-level documentation lives in this repo under datasets/ and on the portal page: https://data.zalize.com/datasets/global-research-output-mobility-dataset
License
CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer) / commercial license — upstream: OpenAlex CC0 1.0
- Academic / personal use: CC BY-NC 4.0 on the DataForge curated layer — attribution + backlink required.
- Commercial use: requires a DataForge commercial license — contact us via the portal.
- Upstream source: OpenAlex official snapshot: institutions, sources, topics, funders + derived institution profiles and aggregated author mobility. Upstream license terms (public domain / CC BY / OGL where applicable) continue to apply to the underlying data.
Citation / attribution
Please credit:
DataForge (data.zalize.com), built from the OpenAlex CC0 snapshot — https://data.zalize.com
For attribution-licensed upstreams keep the upstream credit (PatentsView CC BY 4.0; "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0").
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