OpenAlex (product review)

This review describes the utility of the open bibliographic database OpenAlex.  In addition to providing a collaborative overview of the product, the individual authors explore OpenAlex’s use for systematic literature searching/evidence synthesis (ZP) and its value as a source of open linked bibliometric data (JY). Overall, OpenAlex is a promising option for both evidence synthesis searches and bibliometric analyses, but a more systematic test and comparison - against widely used subscription citation indexes and other openly accessible sources such as Lens.org, and Google Scholar - would be beneficial.