Microsoft Academic

May 4, 2021

Editor's note, June 4, 2021 - the post has been updated with a more extensive FAQ to provide more details on the changes announced May 4. For over seven years, Microsoft Research has been proud to have one of its…

November 20, 2020

Today we have released a novel way to visualize and explore the topic hierarchy on the Microsoft Academic website.  The Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) uses fields of study, exposed as Topics on the Microsoft Academic website, to categorize entities.  These…

October 21, 2020

Microsoft Academic users can now explore biomedical publications using Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms in semantic search.

July 1, 2020

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…

May 21, 2020

Discussion of new changes to Microsoft Academic search, including expanded keyword search, phrase support, abstract search and more

April 21, 2020

Today we are happy to announce the availability of MAKES version 2, a private, self-hosted version of the popular Project Academic Knowledge (PAK) API.  As we hear feedback from our customers, the most requested feature for our free to use…

April 7, 2020

In response to the rapid publications on COVID-19, Microsoft Academic Services have made several changes in the way scholarly articles are processed.

March 16, 2020

Given the circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, we would like to provide an overview of the services that we provide, explain the focus of each and provide working examples on how to best use our data and to help generate…

March 13, 2020

For more than a quarter century, we have lived a life where our online activities are closely monitored, collected, and exploited by internet giants to offer useful services without charging fees. Today, it is unfathomable to have to pay for…