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New research papers on your topics since the last run, plus citation watch for your DOIs, from OpenAlex (300M+ works, CC0). Title, date, venue, open-access link, citations, topic, institutions. No captchas, no Scholar scraping.

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Topic alerts search titles and abstracts. Citation watch tracks how often your papers are cited and how many new citations since the last run.

Type:string

Default:topic_alerts

Options:

topic_alertscitation_watch

Topics (topic alerts)

queries

Optional

One search per line. Quotes for exact phrases: "retrieval augmented generation". Searches title + abstract.

Type:array

Look back (days)

lookbackDays

Optional

Only papers published in the last N days (ignored if 'From date' is set).

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:3650

Default:7

From date (optional)

fromDate

Optional

YYYY-MM-DD. Overrides look back.

Type:string

To date (optional)

toDate

Optional

YYYY-MM-DD

Type:string

Work types (optional)

types

Optional

Empty = all types.

Type:string[]

Open access only

openAccessOnly

Optional

Only papers with a free full-text version (open access).

Type:boolean

Default:false

Min. citations

minCitations

Optional

Only papers cited at least this often (0 = all, recommended for alerts on new papers).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:0

Max papers per topic per run

maxResultsPerQuery

Optional

Upper limit of new papers per topic in one run. Unseen papers above the limit come in the next run.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:500

Default:50

Only papers not seen in earlier runs

onlyNew

Optional

Remembers paper IDs per topic in the state store. Scheduled runs then deliver only genuinely new papers.

Type:boolean

Default:true

DOIs (citation watch)

dois

Optional

One DOI or DOI link per line (10.1038/... or https://doi.org/10.1038/...).

Type:array

Citation watch: only DOIs with new citations

onlyChanges

Optional

Citation watch: return only DOIs whose citation count changed since the last run (the first check of a DOI is always returned).

Type:boolean

Default:false

OpenAlex API key (optional, free)

apiKey

Optional

Without a key you share OpenAlex's keyless daily budget (~100 topic searches/day). A free key from openalex.org gives 10x.

Type:string

State store name

stateStoreName

Optional

Named key-value store that remembers delivered papers and citation counts. Use different names for different watch lists.

Type:string

Default:openalex-paper-alerts-state

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