Overview of Microsoft Academic Graph Keynote Abstract Alex D. Wade Microsoft Research Redmond, WA USA Alex.Wade@microsoft.com ABSTRACT The Microsoft Academic Graph is a heterogeneous graph containing scientific publication records, citation relation- ships between those publications, as well as authors, institu- tions, journals and conference “venues” and fields of study. Copyright c 2015 for the individual papers by the papers’ authors. Copying permit- ted for private and academic purposes. This volume is published and copyrighted by its editors. SIGIR Workshop on Graph Search and Beyond ’15 Santiago, Chile Published on CEUR-WS: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1393/.