About Connect51
Powering global connections in higher education
We built Connect51 to give universities, governments, and researchers the evidence to raise research impact — openly and reproducibly.
Our story
Connect51 began with a simple conviction: that the global research record holds the answers to how institutions rise — if only it were usable.
We set out to turn the open OpenAlex corpus of 46M+ works into a platform any research office could act on, replacing slow, opaque consulting with transparent, self-service intelligence.
Today Connect51 helps institutions benchmark their strengths, choose partners on evidence, and grow the collaborations that lift citations and rankings.
The team
Simone Dilena
Co-founder
Simone leads Connect51's product and research strategy, translating two decades in higher-education analytics into a platform that helps institutions act on their data.
simone@connect51.com
Todd Hornal
Co-founder
Todd drives Connect51's data engineering and methodology, turning the global OpenAlex corpus into reliable, reproducible research intelligence.
todd@connect51.comLet's lift your research impact
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