diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/SparkCreateSimRels.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/SparkCreateSimRels.java
index 7bc77fe2b2..1be2b9e31e 100644
--- a/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/SparkCreateSimRels.java
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-dedup-openaire/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/oa/dedup/SparkCreateSimRels.java
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ public class SparkCreateSimRels extends AbstractSparkAction {
 
 			JavaPairRDD<String, MapDocument> mapDocuments = sc
 				.textFile(DedupUtility.createEntityPath(graphBasePath, subEntity))
+				.repartition(10000)
 				.mapToPair(
 					(PairFunction<String, String, MapDocument>) s -> {
 						MapDocument d = MapDocumentUtil.asMapDocumentWithJPath(dedupConf, s);