Core sources and core publications in OpenAlex

This data set contains data on core sources and core publications identified in the OpenAlex database (based on the OpenAlex snapshot released on August 30, 2024).

The source code used to identify core sources and core publications in OpenAlex is available in this GitHub repository.

See this report for more information about the identification of core sources and core publications in OpenAlex.

This data set consists of the following tab-delimited files.

source.tsv

• source_id
• source
• source_type
• issn_l
• is_core_source
• n_works
• n_core_works

 work.tsv

• work_id
• work_type
• pub_year
• source_id
• doi
• is_core_work