OpenAlex Scholarly Search
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$5.00 / 1,000 work scrapeds
Export scholarly works from the public OpenAlex API by query, author, institution, topic, year, open-access status, and citation count. No login, no proxies.
You can access the OpenAlex Scholarly Search programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
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