Datatypes

OpenAlex ID

ID openalexid

Identifier of an entity in OpenAlex, the open catalogue of scholarly works: a letter for the entity type and a number. W is a work, A an author, S a source (journal or repository), I an institution, C a concept, T a topic, P a publisher and F a funder; V was used for venues before sources replaced them.

Categories

Scientific, Universal unique identifiers

Countries

Global (not tied to a country)

Languages

Common to most languages

Bioregistry

openalex

Wikidata

P10283

Quality

90/100 · missing: negative example, translation

Metacrafter rules

2 rules (1 by field name, 1 by value)

• openalexidbyfieldname field, common/science.yaml
• openalexidbyvalue data, common/science.yaml

Supported by tools

metacrafter

Regular expression

^[ACFIPSTVWacfipstvw][1-9]\d{3,9}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Sources

• other: https://docs.openalex.org/about-the-data#the-openalex-id
• wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10283

Use this record

• Page URL: http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/openalexid
• JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
• Improve it: edit data/datatypes/any/science/openalexid.yaml on GitHub