Making the complete OpenAIRE citation graph easily accessible through compact data representation

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Main Authors: Skarding, Joakim, Sanda, Pavel
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Published: 2026
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author Skarding, Joakim
Sanda, Pavel
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Sanda, Pavel
contents The OpenAIRE graph contains a large citation graph dataset, with over 200 million publications and over 2 billion citations. The current graph is available as a dump with metadata which, when uncompressed, totals $\sim$2.5 TB. This makes it hard to process on conventional computers. To make this network more accessible for the community, we provide a processed OpenAIRE graph which is downscaled to 16 GB RAM, while preserving the full graph structure. Apart from this we offer the processed data in a very simple format, which allows for further straightforward manipulation. We also provide (1) a Python pipeline, which can be used to process the next releases of the OpenAIRE graph, and (2) a larger version of the dataset including more publication fields such as, the title, list of authors.
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spellingShingle Making the complete OpenAIRE citation graph easily accessible through compact data representation
Skarding, Joakim
Sanda, Pavel
Social and Information Networks
Digital Libraries
The OpenAIRE graph contains a large citation graph dataset, with over 200 million publications and over 2 billion citations. The current graph is available as a dump with metadata which, when uncompressed, totals $\sim$2.5 TB. This makes it hard to process on conventional computers. To make this network more accessible for the community, we provide a processed OpenAIRE graph which is downscaled to 16 GB RAM, while preserving the full graph structure. Apart from this we offer the processed data in a very simple format, which allows for further straightforward manipulation. We also provide (1) a Python pipeline, which can be used to process the next releases of the OpenAIRE graph, and (2) a larger version of the dataset including more publication fields such as, the title, list of authors.
title Making the complete OpenAIRE citation graph easily accessible through compact data representation
topic Social and Information Networks
Digital Libraries
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12206