Evaluating the Linguistic Coverage of OpenAlex: An Assessment of Metadata Accuracy and Completeness

« (…) This paper contributes to this literature by assessing the completeness and accuracy of OpenAlex’s metadata related to language, through a comparison with WoS, as well as an in-depth manual validation of a sample of 6,836 articles. Results show that OpenAlex exhibits a far more balanced linguistic coverage than WoS. However, language metadata is not always accurate, which leads OpenAlex to overestimate the place of English while underestimating that of other languages. (…) »

source > arxiv.org, Lucía Céspedes, Diego Kozlowski, Carolina Pradier, Maxime Holmberg Sainte-Marie, Natsumi Solange Shokida, 19 septembre 2024, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.1063

• Mots-clés : 
• Open Science,
• OpenAlex