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Visualizing academic impact
We’re excited to announce that starting today Microsoft Academic users have a new way of visualizing academic impact. This feature, available on author, conference, journal, institution and topic detail pages, provides a visualization of the impact an entity has in…
Provides an overview of the new Network Similarity Package (NSP), an optional utility that is part of the Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG), providing multi-sense network representation
This blog is part 1 of a 3-part series where we will introduce the changes that have been made in this iteration of the site and highlight the search experience, and new data insights. In today’s blog, we will cover…
ICML Conference Analytics
The Microsoft Academic Graph makes it possible to gain analytic insights about any of the entities within it: publications, authors, institutions, topics, journals, and conferences. In this series, we present analytic insights about current conferences, which we hope will help you prepare for attending each event. All…
April 2018 Graph Update
The Microsoft Academic Graph that powers Microsoft Academic 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.…
Some of us remember walking into a library to look for a book or journal article and leaving with an armful of books. Browsing the materials in physical proximity to the one we were looking for was a form of…
Entity linking is a cognitive capability essential to human communication. It contains two challenging components: first, entity conflation, where we recognize that even though an entity is referred to by different names, it is still one item; and second, entity…
New feature: Citation list
We recently launched a new feature that enables users to cite papers directly from Microsoft Academic. Today, we release an enhancement that makes it possible to cite multiple papers with one click. The citation list feature empowers users to select…
Interested users can access the knowledge graph that powers Microsoft Academic search directly via our API. To access the API, you first need to create a free Azure account, and then add the Academic Knowledge API to your dashboards. Follow…
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Alvin Chen
Data Scientist II
Darrin Eide
Principal Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Academic Services
Rick Rogahn
Principal Software Engineering Lead
Iris Shen
Principal Data Scientist