OpenAlex2Pajek -- an R Package for converting OpenAlex bibliographic data into Pajek networks

TL;DR

OpenAlex2Pajek is an R package that converts OpenAlex bibliographic data into Pajek network formats, enabling analysis of scholarly collaboration networks such as global co-authorship over time.

Contribution

The paper introduces a new R package that facilitates transforming OpenAlex data into Pajek networks, supporting bibliometric and network analysis.

Findings

Created a temporal co-authorship network of countries from 1990 to 2023

Demonstrated the package's utility with network analysis examples

Enabled new insights into global research collaboration patterns

Abstract

For analysis of bibliographic data, we can obtain from bibliographic databases the corresponding collection of bibliographic networks. Recently OpenAlex, a new open-access bibliographic database, became available. We present OpenAlex2Pajek, an R package for converting OpenAlex data into a collection of Pajek's networks. For an illustration, we created a temporal weighted network describing the co-authorship between world countries for years from 1990 to 2023. We present some analyses of this network.