Data release

Every Rankless deployment serves exactly one documented data release. This report is regenerated from that release's build record — it describes the data you are browsing right now.

Release of 2026-08-15, built from OpenAlex snapshot 2026-06-30.

Filtering

Starting from the full OpenAlex snapshot, each entity type passes a series of mechanical screens before it is served:

Works

99,408,582 served
  1. 284,076,791 research publications — articles, conference papers, books, chapters and reviews (or restored by their authors); not retracted; in covered years
  2. 103,249,975 cited at least once by an indexed work, or restored
  3. 99,408,582 authorship resolved, user corrections applied

Scholars

4,256,737 served
  1. 46,269,365 credited on an indexed work
  2. 4,256,737 above the activity threshold, or a registered owner

Journals

44,397 served
  1. 44,397 venues with enough indexed works

Institutions

37,001 served
  1. 37,099 institutions with enough indexed works
  2. 37,001 affiliated with indexed works after all screens

User corrections

Scholars who signed in with their ORCID iD have corrected their own records; every such edit lands in a public, revocable ledger. This release integrates 339 corrections:

  • 60 papers claimed by their author
  • 273 papers removed from a scholar profile
  • 4 duplicate scholar records merged
  • 2 duplicate papers merged

No recorded correction was left out.

Papers restored by their authors

Signed-in scholars keep their full body of work in the dataset: every work of a registered owner rides through the mechanical screens above. This release serves 5,692 papers — from 117 signed-in researchers — that the standard screens alone would have dropped, 30 of them individually claimed.

Paper claims

60 of 73 submitted paper claims are resolved in this release.

The rest could not be:

  • 8 paper carries no author records to attribute
  • 3 DOI absent from this snapshot
  • 2 only candidate match was a different researcher

Changes since the previous release

Compared to the release of 2026-08-13 (snapshot 2026-06-30):

  • +7,076,996 works (92,331,586 → 99,408,582)
  • +726 scholars (4,256,011 → 4,256,737)
  • +2,157 journals (42,240 → 44,397)
  • +702 institutions (36,299 → 37,001)
  • +64 newly integrated corrections (339 in total)

Provenance

Release 2026-08-15T01:43:15Z was built from openalex-snapshot-2026-06-30 at commit ed5e497d715c; the serving backend echoes the release stamp 2026-08-15T01:43:15Z:7a14b7d8c49a, which is verified before every deployment goes live.