diff --git a/dhp-common/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/schema/oaf/utils/ModelHardLimits.java b/dhp-common/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/schema/oaf/utils/ModelHardLimits.java
index 36d138ba1..e4b184fa1 100644
--- a/dhp-common/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/schema/oaf/utils/ModelHardLimits.java
+++ b/dhp-common/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/schema/oaf/utils/ModelHardLimits.java
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 
 package eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.oaf.utils;
 
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.common.ModelConstants;
+
 public class ModelHardLimits {
 
 	private ModelHardLimits() {
@@ -19,6 +25,12 @@ public class ModelHardLimits {
 	public static final int MAX_ABSTRACT_LENGTH = 150000;
 	public static final int MAX_RELATED_ABSTRACT_LENGTH = 500;
 	public static final int MAX_INSTANCES = 10;
+	public static final Map<String, Integer> MAX_RELATIONS_BY_RELCLASS = Maps.newHashMap();
+
+	static {
+		MAX_RELATIONS_BY_RELCLASS.put(ModelConstants.PERSON_PERSON_HASCOAUTHORED, 500);
+		MAX_RELATIONS_BY_RELCLASS.put(ModelConstants.RESULT_PERSON_HASAUTHORED, 500);
+	}
 
 	public static String getCollectionName(String format) {
 		return format + SEPARATOR + LAYOUT + SEPARATOR + INTERPRETATION;
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-provision/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/provision/PayloadConverterJob.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-provision/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/provision/PayloadConverterJob.java
index 351526336..cb2d2e799 100644
--- a/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-provision/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/provision/PayloadConverterJob.java
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-provision/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/provision/PayloadConverterJob.java
@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@
 package eu.dnetlib.dhp.oa.provision;
 
 import static eu.dnetlib.dhp.common.SparkSessionSupport.runWithSparkSession;
+import static eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.oaf.utils.ModelHardLimits.MAX_RELATIONS_BY_RELCLASS;
 import static eu.dnetlib.dhp.utils.DHPUtils.toSeq;
 
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Objects;
 import java.util.Optional;
 
 import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
@@ -15,11 +17,13 @@ import org.apache.spark.api.java.function.FilterFunction;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.function.MapFunction;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.*;
 import org.apache.spark.util.LongAccumulator;
+import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
 import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
 
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.application.ArgumentApplicationParser;
@@ -27,11 +31,13 @@ import eu.dnetlib.dhp.common.HdfsSupport;
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.common.vocabulary.VocabularyGroup;
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.oa.provision.model.JoinedEntity;
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.oa.provision.model.ProvisionModelSupport;
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.oa.provision.model.RelatedEntityWrapper;
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.oa.provision.model.TupleWrapper;
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.oa.provision.utils.ContextMapper;
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.oa.provision.utils.XmlRecordFactory;
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.oaf.DataInfo;
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.oaf.Oaf;
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.oaf.utils.ModelHardLimits;
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.solr.SolrRecord;
 import eu.dnetlib.dhp.utils.ISLookupClientFactory;
 import eu.dnetlib.enabling.is.lookup.rmi.ISLookUpService;
@@ -124,6 +130,9 @@ public class PayloadConverterJob {
 					.map(Oaf::getDataInfo)
 					.map(DataInfo::getDeletedbyinference)
 					.orElse(false))
+			.map(
+				(MapFunction<JoinedEntity, JoinedEntity>) PayloadConverterJob::pruneRelatedEntities,
+				Encoders.kryo(JoinedEntity.class))
 			.map(
 				(MapFunction<JoinedEntity, Tuple2<String, SolrRecord>>) je -> new Tuple2<>(
 					recordFactory.build(je, validateXML),
@@ -139,6 +148,30 @@ public class PayloadConverterJob {
 			.json(outputPath);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 This function iterates through the RelatedEntityWrapper(s) associated to the JoinedEntity and rules out
+	 those exceeding the maximum allowed frequency defined in eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.oaf.utils.ModelHardLimits#MAX_RELATIONS_BY_RELCLASS
+	 */
+	private static JoinedEntity pruneRelatedEntities(JoinedEntity je) {
+		Map<String, Long> freqs = Maps.newHashMap();
+		List<RelatedEntityWrapper> rew = Lists.newArrayList();
+
+		if (je.getLinks() != null) {
+			je.getLinks().forEach(link -> {
+				final String relClass = link.getRelation().getRelClass();
+				Long count = freqs.putIfAbsent(relClass, 0L);
+				if (Objects.isNull(count) || (MAX_RELATIONS_BY_RELCLASS.containsKey(relClass)
+					&& count <= MAX_RELATIONS_BY_RELCLASS.get(relClass))) {
+					rew.add(link);
+					freqs.put(relClass, freqs.get(relClass) + 1);
+				}
+			});
+			je.setLinks(rew);
+		}
+
+		return je;
+	}
+
 	private static void removeOutputDir(final SparkSession spark, final String path) {
 		HdfsSupport.remove(path, spark.sparkContext().hadoopConfiguration());
 	}
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-provision/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/provision/utils/XmlRecordFactory.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-provision/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/provision/utils/XmlRecordFactory.java
index b1f419a7e..97d2d3989 100644
--- a/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-provision/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/provision/utils/XmlRecordFactory.java
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-provision/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/provision/utils/XmlRecordFactory.java
@@ -1046,7 +1046,13 @@ public class XmlRecordFactory implements Serializable {
 					metadata.add(XmlSerializationUtils.asXmlElement("familyname", person.getFamilyName()));
 				}
 				if (person.getAlternativeNames() != null) {
-					metadata.addAll(person.getAlternativeNames());
+					metadata
+						.addAll(
+							person
+								.getAlternativeNames()
+								.stream()
+								.map(altName -> XmlSerializationUtils.asXmlElement("alternativename", altName))
+								.collect(Collectors.toList()));
 				}
 				if (person.getBiography() != null) {
 					metadata.add(XmlSerializationUtils.asXmlElement("biography", person.getBiography()));