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Research & AcademiaFresh — updated 2026-08-01

Open-Access Research Papers, Authorships & Citations

47.3M paper records with 160.8M authorship links, 163.8M citation edges, institution profiles and topic trends — built from open scholarly metadata, with a 500K-document full-text subset. B2B-only distribution.

Records
47,277,940 records
Refresh
On request
Formats
Parquet + CSV + JSONL
Coverage
Global
Packages
11
Total volume
47.5 GB

Pricing

On request

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What you get

  • 47,277,940 paper metadata records
  • 160,792,161 authorship rows and 163,836,148 citation edges
  • 82,042 institution profiles and topic-trend tables
  • 500,000-document full-text subset (qualified buyers)
  • MANIFEST with per-file row counts, bytes and sha256

Free sample not yet available for this dataset — request one via the contact form.

Full package inventory

Every package registered in the delivery catalog for this dataset — 11 packages, 47.5 GB total. Sizes, row counts and SHA-256 checksums come straight from the packaging pipeline.

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How to get this data

External channels

No free external mirror yet — this dataset is delivered exclusively through DataForge. See the Open Data program →

# Machine-readable package index (size / sha256 / rows / channels)
curl -s https://data.zalize.com/datasets/open-access-research-papers-dataset/packages.json | jq '.packages[0]'

# Request a free sample (signed link sent to your email)
curl -X POST https://dl.zalize.com/api/sample \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"dataset":"open-access-research-papers-dataset","email":"you@company.com"}'

Pricing

Packages for this dataset are being prepared. Grab the free sample below and contact us for current pricing and delivery.

Full-text edition available to qualified buyers on request — contact us.

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

  • Built from open scholarly metadata sources.
  • Contains full-text content — B2B-only distribution, every order approved manually.

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.

FAQ

How is the data delivered?

Self-serve packages are delivered instantly after checkout via a time-limited download link from our delivery service (dl.zalize.com). Gated and B2B editions are delivered the same way after a short approval step.

Can I use this data for AI training?

Yes — with the AI-Training license tier (1.5× the base price). See the License page for details.

What if I need a custom slice?

Custom cuts of the papers data (by geography, time window or category) are available on request — contact us for a quote within one business day.

Pricing

On request

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