keepset

OpenAlex Citation Graph

Full OpenAlex scholarly citation graph. Nodes are works (250M+), directed edges represent citation relationships (work A references work B). Stored as Parquet relationship tables, queried via DuckDB without loading into memory.

npx keepset fetch openalex-citations

Nodes
250,000,000
Edges
3,040,000,000
Size
559.5 KiB

This entry has no fetchable recipe yet: no download is in a form keepset reads yet (parquet: the download is a Hugging Face dataset repository whose citation table is thousands of Parquet files holding billions of rows, tens of gigabytes in all, more than a fetch can hold in memory, so no Parquet reader is added for it)

Overview

Idopenalex-citations
Categorygraph/v1
Kindgraph
DomainScholarly citations
Tagscitation-network
LicenceCC0-1.0
Cataloguekeepset 1.33.0

Sources and provenance

#URLStatusRetrievedRead by recipePinned snapshotSHA-256
0https://huggingface.co/datasets/Mearman/OpenAlexlive2026-06-0520261022010716rawce363ac3bbf6

Citations

Recipe

Statusnot fetchable: no download is in a form keepset reads yet (parquet: the download is a Hugging Face dataset repository whose citation table is thousands of Parquet files holding billions of rows, tens of gigabytes in all, more than a fetch can hold in memory, so no Parquet reader is added for it)

Crosswalk

keepset/topology to graph/v1, as a crossmap crosswalk.

RuleFromToDirection
movemetametaboth
movenodes[].idnodes[].idboth
moveedges[].sourceedges[].sourceboth
moveedges[].targetedges[].targetboth

Expected counts

Edges3,040,000,000
Nodes250,000,000

Properties

Backendduckdb
Directedyes
Download bytes559.5 KiB
Edge source colwork_id
Edge target colreferenced_work_id
Heterogeneousno
Multigraphno
Parquet dirdata/works/referenced_works
Self loopsno
Weightedno