OpenAlex — Academic Papers & Citations Search to JSON

Search hundreds of millions of scholarly works via OpenAlex — as clean JSON. Pass topics, titles or keywords and get back a tidy row per paper: title, authors, venue, year, citation count, open-access status, PDF URL, concepts and a reconstructed abstract. Powered by the public OpenAlex API — no API key.

The easy way to build research and citation datasets for science, RAG and analytics.

Who uses this

• 🎓 Researchers & academics — find papers and track citations on any topic.
• 🤖 AI / LLM & RAG pipelines — ingest abstracts and metadata at scale.
• 📊 Research analysts & librarians — study venues, citations and open access.
• 🏢 R&D & competitive intel — monitor publications in your field.
• 🧑‍💻 Developers — a clean scholarly-search endpoint by keyword.

What you get — one clean row per paper

Field	Description
title	Paper title
authors + authorCount	Authors
venue	Journal / venue
publicationYear + publicationDate	Publication date
citedByCount	Citation count
isOpenAccess + oaUrl	Open-access status & URL
concepts	Topics / concepts
abstract	Reconstructed abstract
doi + pmid	External IDs
referencedWorksCount	References count
landingPageUrl + pdfUrl	Links

Example

Input

{ "queries": ["large language models", "crispr gene editing"], "maxResultsPerQuery": 25 }

Output (one item)

{
  "id": "https://openalex.org/W2741809807",
  "title": "Attention Is All You Need",
  "authors": ["Ashish Vaswani", "Noam Shazeer"],
  "venue": "NeurIPS", "publicationYear": 2017,
  "citedByCount": 95000, "isOpenAccess": true,
  "concepts": ["Artificial intelligence", "Transformer"],
  "doi": "https://doi.org/10.5555/3295222.3295349"
}

Why this actor

• ✅ Massive coverage — OpenAlex indexes 250M+ scholarly works.
• 🔎 Keyword search — topics, titles and terms.
• 📈 Citation counts — measure impact per paper.
• 📝 Reconstructed abstracts — full abstract text, ready for LLM/RAG.
• ⚡ Fast & affordable — pay only per paper returned. No API key.

Input options

• queries (required) — academic search queries.
• maxResultsPerQuery — cap papers per query.

FAQ

Do I get the abstract? Yes — the abstract is reconstructed from OpenAlex's inverted index into readable text.

Are citation counts included? Yes — citedByCount per paper.

Can I find open-access PDFs? Yes — isOpenAccess and oaUrl/pdfUrl when available.

How fresh is the data? Live from the OpenAlex API on every run.

Can I export to CSV/Excel/Google Sheets? Yes — the dataset exports to JSON, CSV, Excel and HTML, or pull it via the API.

What does it cost? Pay-per-paper — you're only charged for papers actually returned.

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Tip: search your field's key terms and sort your dataset by citedByCount to find the most influential papers.