Frequently asked questions
The questions that come up most often about where this data comes from, what it supports, and what it does not.
- Is ScholarIQ free?
- Yes. This site is free to browse, with no account and no paywall. The product it supports — asking questions across the literature — lives at scholariq.app.
- Where does the data come from?
- Public scholarly metadata, principally OpenAlex, which releases its data under CC0. Every record keeps its upstream identifiers so you can check it against the source.
- How current is it?
- The corpus is a snapshot refreshed in batches, not a live mirror. A very recent paper or a just-changed affiliation may not be here yet. The upstream source is always more current than we are.
- Why does a page show fewer papers than the citation count suggests?
- Counts such as works and citations are upstream totals for that entity across the whole source database. The lists on a page are capped, so they show a subset. The page describes what it shows; the totals describe the entity.
- Why is a figure missing from a page?
- Because we do not have it. A value we cannot source is left off rather than shown as zero — blank means unknown.
- My paper lists the wrong authors, or my affiliation is out of date. Can you fix it?
- Usually the error is in the upstream source, and correcting it there fixes it everywhere that uses the data, including here. If the mistake is ours, tell us and we will correct it.
- Can I be removed from the site?
- Write to us and we will remove your page. Note that the underlying records are public scholarly metadata published by others, so removal here does not remove them from the sources.
- Does ScholarIQ rank researchers or institutions?
- No. We publish counts from the source data and order lists by them, but we do not produce a ranking or an assessment, and these figures should not be used to evaluate an individual.
- Can I use these numbers in my own work?
- Yes, but cite the underlying source rather than us — the figures are OpenAlex's and the identifiers on each page let you pull them directly. Check the methodology page first for which figures are upstream totals and which are computed over a page's visible subset.
Still stuck? Contact us, or read the methodology and sources pages. To use the tool itself, go to scholariq.app.