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Crossref Academic Paper Search

Search over 150 million scholarly works indexed by Crossref -- the largest open registry of DOI metadata in the world. Retrieve structured publication data including titles, authors with ORCID identifiers, citation counts, journal names, funding information, abstracts, and more. No API key required.

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You can access the Crossref Academic Paper 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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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    "query": "CRISPR gene editing",
10    "maxResults": 50,
11}
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("ryanclinton/crossref-paper-search").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
18for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Crossref Paper Search: DOI, Citation & Author Data API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Crossref Academic Paper Search API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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