Global Research Output & Mobility (OpenAlex)

What you get

• S — Starter slice: 305K rows of institution/source/topic reference tables
• M — Research pack: 2.5M rows incl. institution profiles
• L — Full derived library incl. aggregated author mobility flows
• Data dictionary, datasheet and QA report included with every package

Sample preview

First 50 rows of the real free-sample file — the identical schema you get in every package. Click a column to sort, or filter across all rows.

Coverage statistics

Records

31,798,922

Institutions

100,468

Countries

227

Fields

105

Time coverage

n/a

Largest package

2.6 GB

Available packages

Real contents of the current builds — row counts, sizes and checksums come from the packaging manifest, not estimates.

Built from the official OpenAlex 2026-06-26 S3 snapshot (CC0): 510M works scanned, ~200M works (2016+) sliced, 119M authors, 128k institutions, 283k sources (see pipelines/openalex).

Free Open Data — full downloads

This dataset is part of the DataForge Open Data program: the upstream license (Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream data: CC0 1.0, official OpenAlex snapshot (commercial redistribution permitted)) permits free redistribution, so the complete packages below are free — no signup. Please cite DataForge (data.zalize.com) with a backlink when you use or share this data.

License: Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream data: CC0 1.0, official OpenAlex snapshot (commercial redistribution permitted) · Attribution: DataForge (data.zalize.com), built from the OpenAlex CC0 snapshot

Full package inventory

Every package registered in the delivery catalog for this dataset — 2,464 packages, 26.0 GB total , 570,097,055 rows. Sizes, row counts and SHA-256 checksums come straight from the packaging pipeline.

How to get this data

All packages are hosted on the Hugging Face Hub: free/open packages live in a public dataset repo (direct downloads, no signup); paid or restricted editions are delivered from a private repo with token access after approval.

# Download the whole dataset repo (hf CLI — pip install -U huggingface_hub)
hf download zalizedata/global-research-output-mobility-dataset --repo-type dataset --local-dir global-research-output-mobility-dataset

# Or just one archive
hf download zalizedata/global-research-output-mobility-dataset archive/archive/openalex-tier1-L-2026-08-04.zip --repo-type dataset

Protocol access (hf://, resolve links, token auth for private repos) is documented in the developer docs →

Pricing

AI-training use requires the AI-Training tier (1.5× base); redistribution licensing is quoted individually. Annual subscriptions get 2 months free. License details →

Update frequency & delivery

• Source: official OpenAlex snapshot, published under CC0 1.0 (commercial redistribution permitted).
• Every package ships with a MANIFEST (per-file row counts, bytes, sha256) for verification.

Compliance & provenance

Collected only from publicly accessible pages and endpoints — no login-required data, no CAPTCHA solving, no forged authentication. Collection is rate-limited with an identified User-Agent, and collection logs are retained. PII is removed or pseudonymized. Every record carries its source URL and collection timestamp. Sold under a tiered commercial license.

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