Research Graph Foundation

Science moves faster when it can see itself.

Research Graph Foundation builds the connective tissue of science. We map how research actually happens, a billion connections between people, papers, data and discoveries, and we give that map away, because knowledge that cannot be found may as well not exist. Free for research, always.

See how the graph is built

Co-authorship in the NCI Research Graph: each square is a researcher, and each line joins two who wrote together.

Created by and building international collaboration

Research Graph has formed as an interoperability project derived from the outcome of the Research Data Alliance DDRI Working Groups in 2016. The group participants represented several national and international and institutions, software platforms and domain-specific repositories. We have transformed this project into an incubator for science and innovative projects empowered by the global networks of scholarly works and driven by talented and smart individuals from a number of international research institutes.

Research Graph schema

Research Graph schema is an accessible meta-model for connecting research objects. This schema is designed to provide a practical approach to construct large scale graphs from a distributed network of scholarly works, by following these design principles:

Inexpensive metadata harmonisation by providing a simplified data model,
Efficient storage and compute by providing a lean model that enables highly efficient graph algorithm on graphs more than 100M nodes, and
Ease of use for developers and data scientists, making the Research Graph model highly accessible and interoperable.

This schema enables the rapid development of local, national, or domain-specific research graphs with a trade-off between practicality and completeness.

Past projects

National (PID) Graph

A national-scale graph of persistent identifiers that linked Australian research organisations to their research outputs.

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CADRE

Trusted access to sensitive data for research: the Foundation connected the CADRE platform to the Research Graph Augment API.

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Augment-API

A service that turned a single ORCID or DOI into a connected graph of researchers, publications, datasets and grants.

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Research Graph Team

An interoperable graph of research collaboration networks in Australia and abroad, showing how researchers work together across universities.

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COVID-19 Research Graph

The collaboration network of about 250,000 articles on coronaviruses and COVID-19, published between 1990 and July 2021.

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GESIS Research Graph

An early deployment of the Augment API with GESIS in Germany, which produced an open graph of 180,582 nodes.

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NCI Research Graph

An early deployment of the Augment API at NCI Australia, which produced an open graph of 3,268 nodes.

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