OpenAlex Scraper - Research Papers, Citations & Authors API
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OpenAlex API scraper: export research papers, citations, authors, institutions, journals and topics from 250M+ scholarly works to CSV, Excel or JSON. Abstracts included. $3 per 1,000 results.
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