OpenAlex DeepTech & AI Corporate R&D Talent & Lab Finder

Find publication-linked R&D authors and institutions from the official OpenAlex API. Each dataset item is one unique OpenAlex author ID + work ID + institution ID from an authorship on that specific publication. An affiliation is evidence for that publication, not evidence of present employment, a sales contact, or a verified corporate staff role.

Inputs and limits

Input	Default	Meaning
topic	quantum computing	OpenAlex full-text work search
publicationDateFrom / publicationDateTo	2025-01-01 / today	Inclusive publication date range
countryCode	US	Country of the same authorship's institution; blank for any
institutionType	company	OpenAlex institution type; blank for any
minCitations	0	Minimum work cited_by_count
maxResults	5	Maximum unique author–work–institution rows
maxCostUsd	$0.025	Maximum result event charge
maxOpenAlexCostUsd	$0.01	Maximum measured API request usage
maxApiRequests	30	Request count ceiling
openAlexApiKey	empty	Optional verified free key; can also set OPENALEX_API_KEY securely

With no key, the Actor scans at most the first 25 matching works in one page. A verified free key enables bounded page pagination. Do not put API keys into code, logs, or public input examples. No prepaid OpenAlex usage is purchased by this Actor.

Output

The default Apify Dataset is JSON and can be downloaded as CSV from its standard /items?format=csv endpoint, or sent to Clay or n8n. Fields: author_name, orcid (nullable), affiliated_institution_or_company, institution_id, country_code, work_title, publication_date, cited_by_count, topics_keywords (array in JSON; serialized in CSV), doi_url (nullable), source_url, observed_at, plus author_id and work_id for deduplication. Institution type and country are rechecked against the OpenAlex /institutions/{id} record; ORCID is supplemented from /authors/{id}. The relationship itself always comes from /works authorships.

Pricing and API costs

$0.005 per unique author–publication–institution match, or $5 for 1,000 items. One row in the default dataset is one apify-default-dataset-item pay-per-event charge; no extra custom event is charged. maxCostUsd limits that event total, and Apify's run charge ceiling is respected. The OpenAlex API is a separate resource cost; the run summary measures its meta.cost per call. A search is currently $0.001 per request, singleton lookups are free, and keyless usage has a shared $0.10/day budget. A free verified key grants $1/day. Users do not need to buy a paid OpenAlex plan for the small default. Apify platform usage is measured separately in cloud run reports; Store pricing may include it according to the pricing configuration. No purchase is automated.

Caveats

OpenAlex authorship affiliation matching and author disambiguation can be imperfect; a person can list several institutions on one work. A missing ORCID stays null. Works returned in a list may truncate authorships after 100; this Actor fetches the singleton to inspect the full byline when needed. Query filters identify candidate works, but the Actor checks country and type on each author's own institution. Research topics are metadata, not claims about commercial offerings.

Data: OpenAlex, accessed through its official API. Use the source URL and OpenAlex IDs to audit each row.