Sources
ScholarIQ holds no proprietary data. Everything on the site is public scholarly metadata, and every record keeps the upstream identifiers needed to check it against its source.
Primary source
The corpus is built principally from OpenAlex, an open catalogue of scholarly works, authors, institutions, venues and topics run by OurResearch. OpenAlex releases its data into the public domain under CC0, which is what makes a site like this possible.
Where a record carries identifiers into other registries, we keep them and link out rather than copying those registries' own content.
Identifiers on our pages
| Identifier | Used for |
|---|---|
| OpenAlex ID | The primary key for every record on this site |
| DOI | Papers — resolved through doi.org |
| PMID | Biomedical papers indexed in PubMed |
| ORCID | Researchers, where the source carries one |
| ROR | Institutions — the Research Organization Registry |
| ISSN | Journals |
| Wikidata | Institutions and topics, where linked upstream |
Freshness
The corpus is a snapshot, not a live mirror. It is refreshed in batches, so a very recent paper or a just-changed affiliation may not be here yet. Where a page states a figure, that figure is as of the last refresh — the source is always more current than we are, which is why every record links back to it.
Attribution and reuse
If you use figures from this site, cite the underlying source rather than us: the numbers are OpenAlex's, and the identifiers let you pull them directly. Our methodology explains which figures are upstream totals and which are computed over the subset shown on a page — the distinction matters if you plan to quote them.