You can access the Crossref Scientific Papers & DOI Citations Scraper 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 API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {}
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("litezero/crossref-research-citations-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

CrossRef Academic DOI & Journal Citations Scraper | Apify API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Crossref Scientific Papers & DOI Citations Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Crossref Scientific Papers & DOI Citations Scraper API in JavaScript

Crossref Scientific Papers & DOI Citations Scraper API through CLI

Crossref Scientific Papers & DOI Citations Scraper OpenAPI definition

Crossref Scientific Papers & DOI Citations Scraper API

Crossref Academic Paper Search

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neuton/crossref-works-scraper

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Neuton Scripts

PubMed Citation Scraper

parseforge/pubmed-citation-scraper

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ParseForge

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Crossref Scraper | Scholarly DOIs, Citations & Metadata

muzafferkadir/crossref-scraper

Scrape scholarly metadata from Crossref by keyword: title, authors, DOI, journal, citations, subjects, dates and abstract across all publishers. Official API, no API key.

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Research Paper Search — Academic Papers to JSON (OpenAlex)

oblanceolate_mandola/research-paper-search

Search academic papers by topic via OpenAlex. Title, authors, year, citations, DOI, venue as JSON for research & literature-review AI agents. $3 per 1,000, no coding.

Hassan Hashish

Crossref Literature Search

jeeves_is_my_copilot/crossref-literature-search

Search Crossref works and return normalized academic literature metadata.

Alexander Abernathy

Crossref Recent Publications by Query

v0iddo/crossref-recent-publications

For each query, pull recent works from Crossref's public REST API with a server-side date filter. One row per work — DOI, title, authors, type, container, ISSN, abstract, refs, citations, license, funders. Covers all academia (humanities, social sci, engineering, business). No auth.