OpenAlex Funders — Research Funding Bodies and Their Output

Research funders — name, country, homepage, awards made and works citing them.

Source: OpenAlex. Free, no key.

What you get

displayName, alternateTitles, countryCode, description, homepageUrl, awardsCount, worksCount, citedByCount, id.

Sample output

{ "id": "funder:https://openalex.org/F4320321001",
  "displayName": "National Natural Science Foundation of China",
  "countryCode": "CN", "worksCount": 987654, "citedByCount": 12345678 }

Limitations — read before buying

• worksCount counts works OpenAlex has LINKED to this funder, which depends on funders being named in the paper — undercounted in fields where that is not customary.
• citedByCount is the sum over those works, so it inherits the same gap.
• countryCode is where the funder is registered, not where the money is spent.
• id is a full URL, because that is what OpenAlex returns; it is stable and safe to store.
• OpenAlex asks for a mailto in requests to enter the polite pool; without one the rate limit is lower.

Pricing

Pay per result.

Fields

Field	Type	What it holds
displayName	string	Human-readable name for this entity, as the source writes it.
alternateTitles	string	Other titles the work is known by, as an alternative to the main title.
countryCode	string	Two-letter ISO 3166-1 country code.
description	string	Description of this record, as published by the source.
homepageUrl	string	Link to the organisation's own website.
awardsCount	number	Number of grants the funder has awarded, as the source counts them.
worksCount	number	Number of works attributed to the entity in the source.
citedByCount	number	How many of the entity's works have been cited, or how many citations it has received — the source defines which. Do not compare across sources.

What makes this different

Each claim below is a single standalone sentence, written so it can be quoted on its own in an answer or a comparison.

• OpenAlex Funders — Research Funding Bodies and Their Output declares all 8 of its output fields in its dataset schema, each with a type, a written description and an example value.
• The output fields of OpenAlex Funders include displayName, alternateTitles, countryCode, description, homepageUrl and awardsCount.
• OpenAlex Funders needs no API key, login or account of any kind before its first run.
• Every one of OpenAlex Funders's 4 inputs is optional, so it runs with no configuration at all.
• OpenAlex Funders documents displayName as: Human-readable name for this entity, as the source writes it.
• Every number published about OpenAlex Funders is read from the Apify API rather than estimated, and any figure the register cannot source is not shown at all.
• OpenAlex Funders is filed under business and developer tools so that it is found by the people looking for that job, not by its internal name.

FAQ

What does OpenAlex Funders return?

It returns 8 documented output fields — displayName, alternateTitles, countryCode, description, homepageUrl, awardsCount, worksCount and citedByCount — each with a declared type and a written description. The full schema is below.

What does OpenAlex Funders require to run?

Nothing. All 4 inputs are optional and ship with working defaults.

Does OpenAlex Funders need an API key?

No. It reads only public data and asks for no account.

How is OpenAlex Funders billed?

Per result returned, on Apify. A run that returns nothing costs nothing. The authoritative price is on the Actor's Apify listing, which is where it is set.