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Same topics, better assignments: a new topic classifier for OpenAlex

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Every work in OpenAlex now gets its topics from a new classifier. The topics themselves stay the same: same 4,516 topics, same names, same IDs, same 252 subfields, 26 fields and 4 domains. Your filters, dashboards and code keep working. What changes is which works are assigned to each topic, and the new assignments match […]

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Topic: Same topics, better assignments: a new topic classifier for OpenAlex
Source website: blog.openalex.org
Publication date at source: 2026-10-07
Collection date on DzCademia: 2026-10-21

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