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User Meeting

2024 OpenAlex Virtual User Conference

 

The User Conference was a great success! We had a fantastic showing of presentations from around the world on May 30 and May 31, 2024. The video recordings are now available here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe06345JQjNbCjTTQjO8_62HLdDS-MV3n&si=0kuV14a-HzRyWMxr

 

Here is the schedule for the 2024 conference:

 

Thursday May 30th [12pm - 4pm EDT]

Host for the day: Kyle Demes

 

12:00-12:10 – Introduction and Welcome

  • Kyle Demes [OurResearch]

 

12:10-13:10 – User Presentations and Q&A: Group 1

  • Using OpenAlex data to analyze and communicate impact of open access in libraries and beyond by Jessica Edwards, Columbia University Libraries

  • Comparing open abstracts in OpenAlex and Crossref by Bianca Kramer, Sesame Open Science

  • Assessing a Library Collection Using Faculty Citations with OpenAlex and R by Sylvia Orner, The University of Scranton

  • Integrating OpenAlex into a RIM System by Andy Herzog, University of Minnesota

 

13:10-13:20 – break

 

13:20-14:20 – User Presentations and Q&A: Group 2

  • Linking policy documents to academic research by Euan Adie, Overton

  • Creating citation networks with OpenAlex's big data and cloud computing by Daniel Sunfeld, Universidade de Brasília

  • The increasing fragmentation of global science limits the diffusion of ideas by Alexander Gates, University of Virginia

 

14:20-14:30 – break

 

14:30-15:45 – User Presentations and Q&A: Group 3

  • Reviewerly: A High Quality Peer Reviewer Suggestion Application by Sajad Ebrahimi, Toronto Metropolitan University

  • Impactu: CRIS platform for Colombia by Diego Restrepo, University of Antioquia

  • complemetrix.net A tool for visualizing bibliometric data by Albert Diaz-Guilera, Universitat de Barcelona

  • Scite: A New Approach to Rankings by Sean C. Rife, Research Solutions, Inc.

  • Characterizing research outputs and their use: openalex + scite by Ricardo Hartley Belmar, Universidad Central de Chile, Data Observatory Foundation

 

15:45-16:00 – OpenAlex Presentation and Q&A

  • Kyle Demes & Jason Portenoy [OurResearch]

 

Friday May 31st [10am - 2pm CET]

Host for the day: Bianca Kramer

 

10:00-10:10 – Introduction and Welcome

 

10:10-11:25 – User Presentations and Q&A: Group 1

  • MUS: a metadata unification system by Samuel Mok, University of Twente

  • Accelerate metadata curation with the Works Magnet by Eric Jeangirard, French Ministry of Higher Education and Research

  • BiblioReports - A tool for customized bibliometric reports at the University of Duisburg-Essen by Sarah Kritzler, Duisburg-Essen University Library

  • Using OpenAlex to keep 'living' systematic reviews and maps up to date University College London by James Thomas, University College London

  • Benchmarking institutions using embeddings by Gaël Bernard, L'École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

 

11:25-11:35 – break

 

11:35-12:40 – User Presentations and Q&A: Group 2

  • SemOpenAlex: The Scientific Landscape in 26 Billion RDF Triples by David Lamprecht, ScaDS.AI & TU Dresden

  • Building a Node.js SDK to streamline literature searches using OpenAlex by Hassan Mansour and Adnane Touiyate, Open Development & Education

  • Visualizing OpenAlex data with VOSviewer by Nees Jan van Eck, CWTS Leiden University

  • Analysing OpenAlex data with Cortext by Alexandre Hannud Abdo & Joenio Marques da Costa, Université Gustave Eiffel

  • Navigating Scholarly Data: UArizona's Approach Using OpenAlex for Measuring Authors' impacts by Yan Han, The University of Arizona

 

12:30-12:40 – break

 

12:40-13:45 – User Presentations and Q&A: Group 3

  • Beyond Citations: Measuring Novel Scientific Ideas and Their Impact in Publication Text by Nicola Melluso, KU Leuven

  • What you can find if you look for the big science teams in the big open data? - where the big teams came from, where they are now, and what information we are still missing by Malgorzata Lagisz, University of South Wales

  • Publication metadata availibilty and unique content in OpenAlex by Martijn Visser, Leiden University

  • Integrating OpenAlex into the German Competence Network of Bibliometrics by Najko Jahn, University of Göttingen

  • Switching to OpenAlex from a proprietary bibliometric tool by Pascale Pauplin & Amélie Church, Sorbonne Université

 

13:45-14:00 – OpenAlex Presentation and Q&A

  • [Kyle Demes, OurResearch]

If you have any questions or feedback while we’re planning the event, please send us a note at support@openalex.org