Crossref Publications API Scraper – DOI, Title & Citations

Exports structured publication records — DOI, title, authors, journal, volume/issue, ISSN/ISBN, and citation counts — from the official Crossref REST API. Built for researchers, librarians, bibliometricians, and AI/data teams who need clean scholarly metadata or citation datasets without writing their own Crossref API client.

Why this scraper

• Reads Crossref's official JSON API directly rather than scraping rendered HTML pages, so every field Crossref publishes is captured in structured form, with no HTML parsing errors or layout-dependent guesswork.
• Includes referenceCount and isReferencedByCount on every record, so citation-based analysis doesn't require a second lookup.
• No personal or scraped-web data involved — output is limited to publication metadata that Crossref publishers already deposit publicly.

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
doi	string	DOI identifier of the publication
title	string	Title of the publication
type	string	Crossref work type, e.g. journal-article, book-chapter, proceedings-article
publisher	string	Name of the publisher
containerTitle	string	Journal, book, or series title containing the work
authors	string	Semicolon-separated list of author full names in order
publishedDate	string	Publication date, YYYY, YYYY-MM, or YYYY-MM-DD
volume	string	Volume number
issue	string	Issue number
page	string	Page range, e.g. 60-70
issn	string	Comma-separated ISSN(s) of the containing journal
isbn	string	Comma-separated ISBN(s) of the work
referenceCount	integer	Number of references listed in the work
isReferencedByCount	integer	Number of times this work is cited according to Crossref
url	string	Canonical doi.org URL for the work
member	string	Crossref member ID of the depositing publisher

Input

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://api.crossref.org/works?rows=50" }],
  "maxItems": 50
}

You can point startUrls at any Crossref REST endpoint, such as works, journals, or members, with query parameters (filters, search terms, rows) included in the URL. maxItems caps the number of records exported.

Output

{
  "doi": "10.1002/9781119584414.ch4",
  "title": "Complete Dental Cleaning",
  "type": "other",
  "publisher": "Wiley",
  "containerTitle": "Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult Clinical Companion",
  "authors": "",
  "publishedDate": "2021-06-11",
  "volume": "",
  "issue": "",
  "page": "47-54",
  "issn": "",
  "isbn": "9781119584339,9781119584414",
  "referenceCount": 0,
  "isReferencedByCount": 0,
  "url": "https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119584414.ch4",
  "member": "311"
}

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.001 per publication record exported (~$1 per 1,000 records). A run pulling 50 records, like the example input above, costs $0.05.

Use cases

• Building a citation-count dataset for a bibliometrics study across a set of DOIs or a publisher's catalog.
• Populating a university library or repository system with structured metadata (authors, ISSN/ISBN, volume/issue) for newly deposited works.
• Feeding an AI research assistant or literature-review tool with clean title/author/journal/date fields instead of parsing raw API JSON in-house.