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OpenAlex Research Intelligence

Extract publication, author, institution, source, citation, topic, DOI, and open-access signals from the official OpenAlex API.

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太郎山田

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Inputs

Field	Default	Notes
`searchTerms`	`[]`	Research queries for OpenAlex works.
`workIds`	`[]`	OpenAlex work IDs or URLs.
`authorIds`	`[]`	OpenAlex author IDs.
`institutionIds`	`[]`	OpenAlex institution IDs.
`conceptIds`	`[]`	OpenAlex concept IDs.
`fromDate` / `toDate`	empty	Publication date filters in `YYYY-MM-DD`.
`sort`	`cited_by_count:desc`	Citation, publication date, or relevance sort.
`limitPerSource`	`25`	Works fetched per search/filter source.
`maxWorks`	`100`	Global unique work cap.
`includeAbstract`	`false`	Reconstruct abstract text from OpenAlex inverted index when available.
`mailto`	empty	Optional polite-pool email parameter for OpenAlex.
`delivery`	`dataset`	`dataset` or `webhook`.
`dryRun`	`false`	Skip dataset/webhook delivery.

At least one of searchTerms, workIds, authorIds, institutionIds, or conceptIds is required.

Dataset Rows

work_summary

title, DOI, OpenAlex ID, publication year/date, type
citation count, open-access status, retraction flag
primary source, publisher, landing page, PDF URL
topics, concepts, countries, institutions

author_signal

work ID/title, author name and OpenAlex ID
author order/position, corresponding author flag
affiliated institutions and countries

source_summary

work ID/title, journal or source name
source type, ISSN, host organization, open-access source flag

Example Input

{
  "searchTerms": ["large language models", "retrieval augmented generation"],
  "fromDate": "2024-01-01",
  "sort": "cited_by_count:desc",
  "limitPerSource": 10,
  "maxWorks": 20,
  "includeAbstract": false,
  "delivery": "dataset",
  "dryRun": false
}

Local Development

npm install
npm test
node src/index.js

output/result.json contains the full payload. Apify dataset delivery writes flattened rows.

Limitations

OpenAlex coverage is broad but not identical to Crossref, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, or publisher APIs.
Citation counts and metadata can lag source publications.
Relevance sort is used only for search sources; non-search filters fall back to citation sort.
includeAbstract can increase payload size substantially.

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