Medical University Rankings — OpenAlex Scholarly API

Citation-based rankings of medical universities worldwide via OpenAlex — h-index, total citations, works count, country. Built for medical schools, student recruiters, pharma medical affairs (KOL site-selection), and biotech BD.

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What this Actor does

Data source: OpenAlex — open-access scholarly catalogue from the OurResearch nonprofit. 240M+ works, 95k+ institutions. No key, no rate limit (with email).

Output is one JSON record per result, conforming to the azureblue/medical-core envelope so you can join across our other actors on sourceUrl and dataHash.

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Use Cases

1. Medical-school student recruitment

A medical-school admissions team builds a global ranking dashboard for their PR campaigns. Filter by country, sort by h-index — objective ranking data without paying QS / THE licensing.

2. Pharma KOL site-selection

A medical-affairs lead identifies the top 100 oncology-research universities globally to seed their KOL outreach. Citation impact + country filter = an objective shortlist in 5 minutes.

3. Biotech BD scouting

A biotech BD analyst maps the top genomics-research universities in Europe for academic-partnership outreach. Use h-index + works-count to prioritise the institutions most likely to license technology.

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Input

{
  "searchTerm": "medical university",
  "country": "DE",
  "maxResults": 50
}

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Output (sample item)

{
  "name": "Charit\u00e9 \u2014 Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin",
  "country": "DE",
  "hIndex": 580,
  "worksCount": 124312,
  "totalCitations": 4567890,
  "rank": 1,
  "url": "https://openalex.org/institutions/I52729366"
}

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Pricing

Event	Price	When it fires
Per result	$0.005	Per scraped record pushed to the dataset

Trial mode: pass mode: "trial" to get 5 results free with no charges. Use it to evaluate output shape before subscribing.

Pricing on this Actor will rise on 2026-06-17 in line with our monetization tier upgrade. Subscribers active before then keep the current price.

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Compliance

• Public-data only — every endpoint is the source's official public interface. No login walls, no PHI, no paywalled content.
• GDPR Art. 6(1)(f) / equivalent — buyer is responsible for downstream use of the extracted data.
• Source attribution — every dataset item includes sourceUrl linking back to the canonical source.

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Sister Actors — complementary coverage from azureblue

• pubmed-abstract-scraper
• medical-conference-scraper
• bmj-lancet-article-scraper

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Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md in this Actor.