This is the Microsoft Academic Graph data from 2019-03-02. To get this, you'd normally jump through these hoops: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/academic-services/graph/get-started-setup-provisioning As required by ODC-BY, I acknowledge Microsoft Academic using the URI https://aka.ms/msracad. You can find out more about the data schema of the Microsoft Academic Graph at: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/academic-services/graph/reference-data-schema Since Microsoft docs are covered by different licensing terms, the documentation cannot be provided along with the data. There were no changes to the files except compressing them with gzip. They were downloaded and checked twice. After uploading, the md5-hashes from Zenodo match the locally created compressed files. The compressed files will expand to the following sizes (in bytes): 4563254 Affiliations.txt 16498013834 Authors.txt 2220754 ConferenceInstances.txt 427502 ConferenceSeries.txt 55232571 FieldsOfStudy.txt 5685746 Journals.txt 32387110344 PaperAuthorAffiliations.txt 32326282060 PaperReferences.txt 7763965 PaperResources.txt 60135810372 Papers.txt 22000508908 PaperUrls.txt -------------------------------- 163423619310 total (~152GiB)