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April 2018 Graph Update

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The Microsoft Academic Graph  (opens in new tab) that powers Microsoft Academic (opens in new tab) is updated on a weekly basis to ensure data coverage and accuracy.

You can always see the current numbers on our homepage, and we document them on this blog once a month.

screenshot of homepage with latest graph numbers

 

Here are the numbers for the latest update:

Entity

April 13 release

Publications

173,398,460

Authors

210,452,238

Affiliations

18,720

Journals

47,938

Conference series

4,027

Fields of study

228,538

In case you missed it, we recently added machine verification to paper and author claims (opens in new tab).

You can access the Microsoft Academic Graph (opens in new tab) through the Academic Knowledge API (opens in new tab), Azure Data Lake (opens in new tab) (for power users – please contact us if you are interested in this option), or Microsoft Academic. (opens in new tab)

For graph and other updates, please follow Microsoft Academic on Twitter (opens in new tab).

Happy researching!