Wow! openalex.org looks like an amazing open alternative to Google Scholar. Citation counts etc. look very similar to GScholar on a quick vanity search. Check it out. Opens up a lot of possibilities for metascience.

As someone with a common name, it does a really poor job of disambiguating. There are at least three of us smashed into one author record (possibly more). For me, that has always been the magic of Google Scholar - it uses the coauthor graph to do a pretty good job of teasing us apart

It might work well for people in the Sciences but it does a poor job (compared to Google Scholar) with respect to the Arts and Humanities

Looks great but it seems to be making odd mistakes, like mixing up people

It has a truly broken approach to Biology papers, it finds multiple published papers that mention my name in the Acknowledgments, even a PhD thesis or two, but misses nearly every paper on which I'm listed as an author (one I'm a middle author on does show up, eventually).

Hmm. My quick vanity search indicates it picks up about half of the references to my work (and assigns two thirds the h-index) that google does. Part of this seems to be undercounting traditional academic output but I suspect a lot is not seeing anything that is not a journal article or a book.

It is getting the name wrong for one of my main collaborators, and she is one of the most cited people in my field. It looks like it is still a bit away from replacing Google Scholar.

Also check out Matilda, which I just stumbled on today

That is cool!

I would love to see a “how to cite” feature, similar to what Google Scholar offers

I didn't think it was so flash -- perhaps an uncommon name helps.