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OpenAlex Scientific Papers & Citations Scraper — 250M+ Acade

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Scrape academic papers, scientific research studies, citation metrics, author institutions, open-access PDFs, and DOIs from OpenAlex. Global scholarly literature search and monitoring.

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OpenAlex Scientific Papers & Citations Scraper

Harvest scholarly literature, research papers, citation metrics, author institutions, open-access PDFs, and DOIs from OpenAlex's index of 250M+ academic works.

Features

Rich Scholarly Telemetry: Extracts paper title, DOI, publication year, journal/conference source, citation count, open access PDF URL, authors, university affiliations, and reconstructed plain-text abstracts.
Granular Academic Filters: Filter by research topic concepts, publication year ranges, minimum citation counts, open-access availability, and university/institution names.
Automated Research Monitoring: Run on a schedule with onlyNewItems and stateKey to get alerts whenever groundbreaking papers matching your queries are published.
Lightweight & High Speed: Direct JSON API queries with zero browser dependencies, consuming minimal Apify compute credits.

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`searchQuery`	String	`"large language models"`	Scientific topic, disease, technology, or title
`fromYear`	Integer	`null`	Earliest publication year (e.g. 2024)
`toYear`	Integer	`null`	Latest publication year (e.g. 2026)
`minCitations`	Integer	`0`	Minimum citation count threshold
`openAccessOnly`	Boolean	`false`	Restrict to open-access / free-to-read papers
`institutionName`	String	`""`	Filter by university or research institute
`sortBy`	String	`"cited_by_count:desc"`	`cited_by_count:desc`, `publication_date:desc`, `relevance_score:desc`
`maxResults`	Integer	`100`	Maximum papers to extract
`onlyNewItems`	Boolean	`false`	Monitoring mode: only emit newly published works
`outputPreset`	String	`"full"`	`full`, `lean`, or `contacts`

Output Example

{
  "workId": "https://openalex.org/W4389021841",
  "doi": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-00001-x",
  "title": "Scaling Autonomous Agents in Multi-Turn Reasoning Tasks",
  "publicationYear": 2025,
  "publicationDate": "2025-04-12",
  "type": "article",
  "citedByCount": 182,
  "authors": [
    { "name": "Elena Rostova", "id": "https://openalex.org/A5021", "institution": "Stanford University" }
  ],
  "primarySource": "Nature Machine Intelligence",
  "isOa": true,
  "oaUrl": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.12345.pdf",
  "concepts": [
    { "name": "Artificial intelligence", "score": 0.88 },
    { "name": "Reinforcement learning", "score": 0.76 }
  ],
  "abstract": "We investigate how autonomous reasoning agents scale across iterative pair programming environments...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-27T12:00:00.000Z"
}

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