DECLARED COVERAGE BLIND SPOT
written by a person · artifact 2026-07-27/v2-bridge-k5 · SHA-256 73847f8ff535e7d2…Some topics are dumping grounds for unclassifiable work
OpenAlex assigns a topic to every work, so works with thin metadata land wherever the classifier defaults. 'Military Technology and Strategies' holds 22.3M works — 7% of the entire corpus — and 'Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies' holds 5.1M. These are artifacts of classification, not fields of that size, and any measure averaged over them is meaningless.
- coverage severity
- partial
MEASURED CONTEXT
- T14423 works
- 22,343,805
- T13370 works
- 5,142,288
This is a sourced, human-curated entry or a declared project limitation. It is not a computed discovery or an actionable hypothesis.