Funding metadata in OpenAlex

With the Walden launch behind us, 2026 promises to be an exciting year for OpenAlex. And thanks to a transformative grant from Wellcome of $3.6M over three years , funding metadata will be a major focus of that development. This Wellcome-funded project aims to make funding information a first-class part of the open scholarly graph so that funders, institutions, researchers, and tool-builders can…