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Known issues
OpenAlex is still very new, and so you'll encounter some bugs as you look through the data. This page documents the ones we currently know about.
Please report any other issues you find by emailing us at [email protected]
Some strings not yet matched to entities.
We've got a lot of strings floating around for venues and institutions that haven't actually been linked to a
Venue or Institution entity in the database. These show up as objects missing an id property, in these fields:-
Dehydrated InstitutionAuthorshipsobjects in theWork.authorships property.
These ID-less objects are tricky because they can't do most of the things a regular entity can. They're just a suitcase for a name, right now. They are inherited from MAG, and we plan to fix them. Over the next month or so, we'll be processing all these stub entities, clustering them together, and minting tens of millions of new entities from them
MAG format snapshot has a few duplicate rows and escaping issues.
We're continuing to improve our processes to make sure the data in the MAG format is clean and easy to pull in to a relational database. This current release still has a few issues, but we'll try to fix these by the next release.
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