New Resource: “ORION Dashboard: Bringing Open Research Data Within Reach”

From a Leiden Madtrics Post by Juan Pablo Bascur Cifuentes

The ORION dashboard enables easy exploration of CWTS OpenAlex data on BigQuery, letting users analyse institutions, funders, and research topics via interactive visualisations and reproducible SQL queries without any coding skills required.

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What the dashboard does

The current version centres on two types of entities: research institutions and funders. From a simple search interface, users can:

• Search institutions and funders by name, country, or type, and see how many works they are associated with over a chosen year range.
• Build a basket of institutions or funders of interest (think of it as a custom research portfolio) and run analyses on the papers published by that set as a whole. Baskets can be built in bulk, for example by selecting all institutions in a country at once.
• Count total works for a basket across a selected time period, with full deduplication (a paper co-authored by two basket institutions counts once, not twice). The Dashboard also provides the SQL code needed to download the paper IDs and guidance on how to join them with other tables to obtain further attributes, such as titles.
• Discover co-occurring institutions and funders, which means which other organizations appear most frequently on the same papers as your basket.
• Visualize those co-occurrences as an interactive network in VOSviewer Online with a single click, without any data export or manual setup.
• Explore the topical profile of a basket: how its publications are distributed across 4,521 thematic clusters. All clusters are shown, including those with zero basket publications, so the full landscape of a field is visible.

All the data comes from the openalex_2025aug dataset, except from the clusters that come from openalex_2023nov_classification.

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What comes next

The ORION dashboard is an ongoing development project. The current version is functional but deliberately focused. Features I am actively considering include:

• Expanding the data sources to other ORION-DBs datasets.
• Journal, author, and topic analysis.
• Citation scores.
• Visual navigation of papers based on interactive science maps.
• Implementation of several original bibliometric innovations developed during my PhD research.
• Integration of other open-source bibliometric projects into the dashboard.

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