Research Papers Scraper: Citations, Authors & Experts

Search over 250 million academic papers across every field of research - no API key, no login, no library subscription. Built on OpenAlex, the open catalog of the world's research, which this actor gratefully credits as its data source.

Four things it does

1. Search papers by topic. One row per paper: title, abstract, publication date, journal, authors with first-author institutions, citation count, field-weighted citation impact, and a direct PDF link when a free version exists. Sort by best match, most cited, or newest; filter by year range, minimum citations, and open access.

2. Find the top experts on any topic. Give it "crispr gene editing" and get the most-published researchers on that topic, ranked, each with ORCID, h-index, total citations and current institutions. An instant expert lead list for consulting, speaking, peer review, due diligence or journalism.

3. Look up researchers by name. ORCID, h-index, paper and citation counts, institutional affiliations - with multiple matches returned for ambiguous names.

4. Enrich DOI lists. Paste DOIs and get the full record for each, including citation counts and open-access links.

Example input

{
    "queries": ["large language models"],
    "maxPerQuery": 15,
    "sortBy": "citations"
}

Who uses this

• R&D and competitive intelligence teams: track what is being published in your field and by whom.
• Recruiters, event organizers and expert networks: the expert-finder mode is a ready-made lead list with credentials attached.
• Journalists and analysts: find the right person to quote and verify their standing.
• Libraries, EdTech and research tools: enrich reference lists at a fraction of commercial database prices.
• Grant writers and academics: literature scans sorted by citations, with abstracts, in structured JSON.

Pricing

A small fee per row. Searches that match nothing, unknown DOIs and unmatched names are free note rows, and the first 2 rows of every run are free.

Notes

• Data source: OpenAlex (CC0). Coverage is excellent for journal articles across all disciplines; abstracts are present for most recent papers but not all older ones.
• Author name search matches names, not topics - use the expert finder for topic-based discovery.
• Citation counts reflect OpenAlex's index and can differ slightly from Google Scholar (which counts more gray literature).