{"id":171464,"date":"2015-05-14T04:39:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T11:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/microsoft-academic-graph\/"},"modified":"2021-05-04T10:10:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T17:10:59","slug":"microsoft-academic-graph","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/microsoft-academic-graph\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Academic Graph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Editor&#8217;s note, May 4, 2021 \u2013<\/strong> In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/academic\/articles\/microsoft-academic-to-expand-horizons-with-community-driven-approach\/\">recent blog post<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, it was announced the Microsoft Academic website and underlying APIs will be retired on Dec. 31, 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p>The Microsoft Academic Graph is a heterogeneous graph containing scientific publication records, citation relationships between those publications, as well as authors, institutions, journals, conferences, and fields of study. This graph is used to power experiences in Bing, Cortana, Word, and in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/academic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Academic<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. The graph is currently being updated on a bi-weekly basis until the end of the calendar year 2021. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/academic\/articles\/microsoft-academic-to-expand-horizons-with-community-driven-approach\/\">our blog post<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<h2>Access the Microsoft Academic Graph<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) on Azure Storage (AS)<\/h3>\n<p>For analytic and research usage scenarios, we offer an automated distribution service that uploads new versions of MAG to Azure Storage accounts. This option enables you to access the entire knowledge graph in an efficient and highly private manner. Please see <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/academic-services\/graph\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Academic Graph<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> documentation for details.<\/p>\n<div>Not sure what insights MAG can provide through analytics?<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/academic-services\/graph\/samples-azure-data-lake-analytics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Samples of analytics and visualization using Data Lake Analytics<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>In-depth example of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/academic\/articles\/www-conference-analytics\">using Data Lake Analytics and Power BI to provide insights about ECCV<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, an academic conference in the field of computer vision<\/li>\n<li>Watch our <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/note.microsoft.com\/MSR-Webinar-Academic-Service-Registration-On-Demand.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">webinar on Microsoft Academic Services<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> to get an overview of MAG and its available APIs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Microsoft Academic Knowledge API<\/h3>\n<p>For demonstration and lightweight usage scenarios, we provide a REST-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/academic-knowledge\/\">Academic Knowledge API<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> available through Cognitive Services Labs. The API is free, but there are a monthly quota and traffic throttles. The calls are routed through the public internet, and the callers have to share the resources.<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Microsoft Academic Knowledge Exploration Service (MAKES)<\/h3>\n<p>MAKES is a portable version of the Academic Knowledge API that can be deployed and setup on private Azure subscriptions. Similar to MAG on AS, we offer an automated distribution service that uploads everything you need to setup and deploy Azure resources to host private instances of the Academic Knowledge API. The private instances are not rate limited and can be scaled up to more powerful hardware configurations based on required performance scenarios. Please see <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/academic-services\/knowledge-exploration-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Academic Knowledge Exploration Service<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> documentation for details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We kindly request that any published research that makes use of this data cites our paper listed below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Arnab Sinha, Zhihong Shen, Yang Song, Hao Ma, Darrin Eide, Bo-June (Paul) Hsu, and Kuansan Wang. 2015. An Overview of Microsoft Academic Service (MAS) and Applications. In <em>Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web<\/em> (WWW &#8217;15 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 243-246. DOI=http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1145\/2740908.2742839<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Related Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/aka.ms\/microsoft-academic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Academic (website)<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/academic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Academic (project page)<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/cognitive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Cognitive Services<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/labs.cognitive.microsoft.com\/en-us\/project-academic-knowledge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Cognitive Services Academic Knowledge API<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.openacademic.ai\/oag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Academic Graph<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Microsoft Academic Graph is a heterogeneous graph containing scientific publication records, citation relationships between those publications, as well as authors, institutions, journals, conferences, and fields of study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":743632,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13556,13563,13555],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-impact-theme":[],"msr-pillar":[],"class_list":["post-171464","msr-project","type-msr-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-research-area-artificial-intelligence","msr-research-area-data-platform-analytics","msr-research-area-search-information-retrieval","msr-locale-en_us","msr-archive-status-active"],"msr_project_start":"2015-06-05","related-publications":[241310,238110,168440,643506,643512,464124,563670,641505,643437,643443,643464,643494,643500],"related-downloads":[],"related-videos":[],"related-groups":[],"related-events":[],"related-opportunities":[],"related-posts":[],"related-articles":[],"tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"Projects","content":"<h3>Related Projects<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cm.cecs.anu.edu.au\/post\/citation_vis\/\">Visualizing Citation Patterns of Computer Science Conferences<\/a> - 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