Compact OpenAIRE Citation Graph: The Full Scholarly Citation Network

Compact OpenAIRE Citation Graph is a distilled version of the OpenAIRE Graph v11.1.1. It contains the full scholarly citation network of the open-science ecosystem, packaged into compact, analysis-ready files. The dataset was created by Zmeos and was last updated on June 12, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze citation patterns and scientific influence based on the full scholarly citation network.
• Study the structure and evolution of the open-science ecosystem using the citation graph.
• Train or benchmark graph-based machine learning models for link prediction or node classification.
• Map knowledge flows and interdisciplinary connections across the scholarly literature.

Strengths

• Based on the complete OpenAIRE Graph v11.1.1, a major source for open-science metadata.
• Designed to be compact and analysis-ready, addressing the typical multi-terabyte scale of such graphs.
• Last updated on June 12, 2026, suggesting recent data.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenAIRE Graph v11.1.1, sourced from Zenodo.

Collection Method

Distilled from the complete OpenAIRE citation graph.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-12 17:57:43