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Scholar Citations API — Academic Works & Author Profiles

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Academic works, authors and citation counts as clean JSON via OpenAlex: search 250M+ papers, look up by DOI, get author h-index and top cited works. Keyless official API — no CAPTCHA, no Google Scholar blocks.

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from $1.20 / 1,000 api requests

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RD.Galih Rakasiwi

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Endpoints

Method	Path	Description
GET	`/search?q=...`	Search works, sorted by citations
GET	`/work/{doi}`	One work by DOI
GET	`/authors/search?q=...`	Author search with h-index
GET	`/author/{openalex_id}`	Author profile + top cited works
GET	`/health`	Liveness probe

curl "https://<container-url>/search?q=reinforcement+learning"
curl "https://<container-url>/work/10.7717/peerj.4375"
curl "https://<container-url>/authors/search?q=geoffrey+hinton"
curl "https://<container-url>/author/A5108093963"

Output

{
  "query": "reinforcement learning",
  "count": 20,
  "results": [
    {
      "title": "Reinforcement Learning",
      "doi": "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27645-3",
      "year": 2012,
      "citedBy": 829,
      "venue": "Adaptation, learning, and optimization",
      "openAccessUrl": null,
      "authors": [{"name": "Marco Wiering", "openalexId": "https://openalex.org/A..."}]
    }
  ]
}

Author profiles include hIndex, i10Index, citedBy, worksCount and top-20 works by citations.

Notes

Built on the official OpenAlex API — keyless, stable, no anti-bot (see RE.md for the proven recipe).
Pay per request; health checks are free.

google scholar api, academic search api, citations api, research paper api, scholarly data, h-index api, openalex api

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pip install -r requirements.txt
uvicorn src.main:app --reload

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