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Extract research papers from OpenAlex — titles, authors, citations, institutions, and open access links.

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Developer

Stas Persiianenko

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Categories

Education

Search queries

searchQueries

Required

Search terms for academic papers (e.g. "machine learning", "CRISPR gene editing", "climate change").

Type:array

Publication year filter

publicationYear

Optional

Filter by publication year. Use a single year (e.g. "2024") or range (e.g. "2020-2025"). Leave empty for all years.

Type:string

Default:

Minimum citations

minCitations

Optional

Only return papers with at least this many citations. Set to 0 for all papers.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:0

Open access only

openAccessOnly

Optional

Only return papers that are freely available (open access).

Type:boolean

Default:false

Sort by

sortBy

Optional

How to sort results.

Type:string

Default:relevance

Options:

relevancecited_by_countpublication_date

Max results

maxResults

Optional

Maximum number of papers to extract per query (1–500). Default is 20 to keep test runs inexpensive; raise it for larger literature reviews.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:500

Default:20

OpenAlex API key (optional)

openAlexApiKey

Optional

Optional free OpenAlex API key. Supplying a key avoids anonymous search rate limits when OpenAlex is under heavy load.

Type:string

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