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Search 250M+ scholarly works via OpenAlex: title, authors and institutions, year, venue, citations count, open-access PDF link, DOI, concepts, abstract. Filter by year and citations, sort by relevance or citations. Complements arXiv. No API key.

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OpenAlex id

Optional

Short OpenAlex id of the record (W… work, A… author, S… source, I… institution, T… topic, C… concept, F… funder, P… publisher); one row per id. Always kept, whatever fields says. Not set on groupBy rows.

Type:string | null

Example:

W2741809807

OpenAlex URL

openalexUrl

Optional

Canonical OpenAlex URL of the record.

Type:string | null

Example:

https://openalex.org/W2741809807

Name

name

Optional

Display name (authors, sources, institutions, topics, concepts, funders, publishers).

Type:string | null

Example:

Nazarbayev University

Title

title

Optional

Work title.

Type:string | null

Example:

Attention Is All You Need

DOI

doi

Optional

DOI without the https://doi.org/ prefix (works).

Type:string | null

Example:

10.48550/arxiv.1706.03762

DOI URL

doiUrl

Optional

DOI as a link (works).

Type:string | null

Example:

https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1706.03762

Year

year

Optional

Publication year (works).

Type:integer | null

Example:

2017

First version year

firstVersionYear

Optional

Year of the earliest arXiv/bioRxiv version OpenAlex merged into the record, else year (works).

Type:integer | null

Example:

2017

Publication date

publishedAt

Optional

Publication date YYYY-MM-DD (works).

Type:string | null

Example:

2017-06-12

Type

type

Optional

Work type (article, preprint, review…), source type (journal, repository…) or institution type (education, company…).

Type:string | null

Example:

article

Crossref type

typeCrossref

Optional

Crossref work type (works).

Type:string | null

Example:

journal-article

Language

language

Optional

ISO 639-1 language code (works).

Type:string | null

Example:

Venue

venue

Optional

Journal, repository or conference of the primary location (works).

Type:string | null

Example:

Nature

Venue id

venueId

Optional

OpenAlex source id (S…) of the venue (works).

Type:string | null

Example:

S137773608

Venue type

venueType

Optional

journal, repository, conference, ebook platform or book series (works).

Type:string | null

Example:

journal

ISSN

issn

Optional

Works: ISSN-L of the venue (string). Sources: every ISSN of the source (list).

Type:string | array | null

Example:

0028-0836

ISSN-L

issnL

Optional

Linking ISSN (sources).

Type:string | null

Example:

0028-0836

Publisher

publisher

Optional

Host organization of the venue (works) or of the source (sources).

Type:string | null

Example:

Springer Nature

Publisher id

publisherId

Optional

OpenAlex id of the host organization (sources).

Type:string | null

Example:

P4310319965

Authors

authors

Optional

Author names in byline order, cut at maxAuthors (works).

Type:array | null

Example:

Ashish Vaswani,Noam Shazeer

Authors count

authorsCount

Optional

Real number of authors, before the maxAuthors cut (works).

Type:integer | null

Example:

Authors truncated

authorsTruncated

Optional

True when the author list was cut (by maxAuthors or by OpenAlex) (works).

Type:boolean | null

Example:

false

Authors (detailed)

authorsDetailed

Optional

With includeAuthorDetails: id, name, ORCID, position, corresponding flag, institutions with ROR/country/type, raw affiliation strings (works).

Type:array | null

Example:

[object Object]

Institutions

institutions

Optional

Distinct institutions of the authors, up to 15 (works).

Type:array | null

Example:

Google (United States)

Countries

countries

Optional

Distinct ISO country codes of the authors (works).

Type:array | null

Example:

Corresponding authors

correspondingAuthors

Optional

Names of the corresponding authors (works).

Type:array | null

Example:

Ashish Vaswani

Citations

citations

Optional

OpenAlex cited_by_count of the record (works: citing works; other entities: citations of their works).

Type:integer | null

Example:

6500

Citations suspect

citationsSuspect

Optional

True when ≥5 % (and ≥20) of the citing works were published 2+ years before the work's first version — a likely OpenAlex record error; null = not checked (works).

Type:boolean | null

Example:

false

Citations predating the work

citationsPredatingWork

Optional

Citing works published 2+ years before the work's first version; null = not checked (works).

Type:integer | null

Example:

FWCI

fwci

Optional

Field-weighted citation impact (works).

Type:number | null

Example:

412.3

Citation percentile

citationPercentile

Optional

Normalized citation percentile 0–1 (works).

Type:number | null

Example:

0.999

Top 10 %

isTop10Percent

Optional

In the top 10 % most cited of its field and year (works).

Type:boolean | null

Example:

true

Top 1 %

isTop1Percent

Optional

In the top 1 % most cited of its field and year (works).

Type:boolean | null

Example:

true

References count

referencedWorksCount

Optional

Number of works this work cites (works).

Type:integer | null

Example:

Referenced works

referencedWorks

Optional

With includeReferencedWorks: OpenAlex ids (W…) of the works this work cites (works).

Type:array | null

Example:

W2964121744

Citations by year

countsByYear

Optional

With includeCountsByYear: [{year, citations}] for about the last 10 years (works).

Type:array | null

Example:

[object Object]

Open access

isOpenAccess

Optional

Free to read somewhere (works); fully open-access source (sources).

Type:boolean | null

Example:

true

OA status

oaStatus

Optional

diamond, gold, green, hybrid, bronze or closed (works).

Type:string | null

Example:

green

PDF URL

pdfUrl

Optional

Best open copy (PDF or landing page) when one exists (works).

Type:string | null

Example:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762

URL

url

Optional

Landing page (works), ORCID or OpenAlex page (authors), homepage or OpenAlex page (others).

Type:string | null

Example:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

License

license

Optional

License of the best open copy (works).

Type:string | null

Example:

cc-by

Version

version

Optional

submittedVersion, acceptedVersion or publishedVersion of the best open copy (works).

Type:string | null

Example:

submittedVersion

Retracted

isRetracted

Optional

The work was retracted (works).

Type:boolean | null

Example:

false

Primary topic

primaryTopic

Optional

Primary OpenAlex topic (works).

Type:string | null

Example:

Natural Language Processing Techniques

Primary topic id

primaryTopicId

Optional

OpenAlex topic id (T…) of the primary topic (works).

Type:string | null

Example:

T10181

Subfield

subfield

Optional

Subfield of the primary topic (works) or of the topic (topics).

Type:string | null

Example:

Artificial Intelligence

Subfield id

subfieldId

Optional

OpenAlex subfield id (topics).

Type:string | null

Example:

subfields/1702

Field

field

Optional

Field of the primary topic (works) or of the topic (topics).

Type:string | null

Example:

Computer Science

Field id

fieldId

Optional

OpenAlex field id (topics).

Type:string | null

Example:

fields/17

Domain

domain

Optional

Domain of the primary topic (works) or of the topic (topics).

Type:string | null

Example:

Physical Sciences

Domain id

domainId

Optional

OpenAlex domain id (topics).

Type:string | null

Example:

domains/3

Topics

topics

Optional

Up to 5 topic names (works, authors, sources, institutions).

Type:array | null

Example:

Natural Language Processing Techniques

Keywords

keywords

Optional

Keywords (works: up to 10; topics: the topic's keywords).

Type:array | null

Example:

Transformer,Attention

Concepts

concepts

Optional

Up to 8 legacy OpenAlex concepts (works).

Type:array | null

Example:

Computer science

SDGs

sdgs

Optional

UN Sustainable Development Goals the work is linked to (works).

Type:array | null

Example:

Funders

funders

Optional

Funder names (works).

Type:array | null

Example:

National Science Foundation

Volume

volume

Optional

Volume (works).

Type:string | number | null

Example:

Issue

issue

Optional

Issue (works).

Type:string | number | null

Example:

Pages

pages

Optional

First–last page (works).

Type:string | number | null

Example:

5998-6008

PubMed id

pmid

Optional

PubMed id (works).

Type:string | null

Example:

32015507

arXiv id

arxivId

Optional

arXiv id of a merged preprint version (works).

Type:string | null

Example:

1706.03762

Abstract

abstract

Optional

Abstract rebuilt from OpenAlex's inverted index; null when there is none or includeAbstract is off (works).

Type:string | null

Example:

The dominant sequence transduction models are based on …

Alternative names

alternativeNames

Optional

Up to 5 other spellings of the name.

Type:array | null

Example:

A. Vaswani

ORCID

orcid

Optional

ORCID link (authors).

Type:string | null

Example:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097

Works count

worksCount

Optional

Number of works (authors, sources, institutions, topics, concepts, funders, publishers).

Type:integer | null

Example:

120

h-index

hIndex

Optional

h-index (authors, sources, institutions, concepts, funders, publishers).

Type:integer | null

Example:

i10-index

i10Index

Optional

Works with ≥10 citations (authors, sources, institutions).

Type:integer | null

Example:

Mean citedness (2 y)

meanCitedness2y

Optional

2-year mean citedness (authors, sources, institutions).

Type:number | null

Example:

3.2

Last known institutions

lastKnownInstitutions

Optional

Last known institutions (authors).

Type:array | null

Example:

Google (United States)

Last known country

lastKnownCountry

Optional

Country code of the first last known institution (authors).

Type:string | null

Example:

Last known countries

lastKnownCountries

Optional

Country codes of all last known institutions (authors).

Type:array | null

Example:

Country

country

Optional

ISO country code (authors: the last known institution, the one matching countryCodes in experts by topic; sources, institutions, funders, publishers: their own).

Type:string | null

Example:

Affiliations

affiliations

Optional

Up to 10 affiliations with institution, id, country, type and years (authors).

Type:array | null

Example:

[object Object]

Scopus id

scopusId

Optional

Scopus author link (authors).

Type:string | null

Example:

null

Works API URL

worksApiUrl

Optional

OpenAlex API list of the author's works (authors).

Type:string | null

Example:

https://api.openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5103024730

Matched by

matchedBy

Optional

How an author row was found: topic (experts by topic) or name (name search) (authors).

Type:string | null

Example:

topic

Papers on the topic

topicWorksCount

Optional

Experts by topic: the author's papers matching the query and the works filters.

Type:integer | null

Example:

Topic query

topicQuery

Optional

Experts by topic: the query the papers matched.

Type:string | null

Example:

battery electrolytes

Abbreviated title

abbreviatedTitle

Optional

Abbreviated title (sources).

Type:string | null

Example:

Nature

Open-access works

oaWorksCount

Optional

Open-access works of the source (sources).

Type:integer | null

Example:

30000

In DOAJ

isInDoaj

Optional

Listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (sources).

Type:boolean | null

Example:

false

Core source

isCore

Optional

CWTS core source (sources).

Type:boolean | null

Example:

true

APC (USD)

apcUsd

Optional

Article processing charge in USD (sources).

Type:number | null

Example:

3000

APC prices

apcPrices

Optional

APC prices in their currencies (sources).

Type:array | null

Example:

[object Object]

Homepage

homepage

Optional

Homepage URL (sources, institutions, funders, publishers).

Type:string | null

Example:

https://www.nature.com/nature

First year

firstYear

Optional

First publication year (sources).

Type:integer | null

Example:

1869

Last year

lastYear

Optional

Last publication year (sources).

Type:integer | null

Example:

2026

Acronyms

acronyms

Optional

Acronyms (institutions).

Type:array | null

Example:

ROR

ror

Optional

ROR id link (institutions, funders, publishers).

Type:string | null

Example:

https://ror.org/052bx8q98

City

city

Optional

City (institutions).

Type:string | null

Example:

Astana

Region

region

Optional

Region (institutions).

Type:string | null

Example:

null

Latitude

latitude

Optional

Latitude (institutions).

Type:number | null

Example:

51.09

Longitude

longitude

Optional

Longitude (institutions).

Type:number | null

Example:

71.4

Image URL

imageUrl

Optional

Logo/image (institutions).

Type:string | null

Example:

null

Wikidata

wikidata

Optional

Wikidata link (institutions, funders, publishers, concepts).

Type:string | null

Example:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1342573

GRID

grid

Optional

GRID id (institutions).

Type:string | null

Example:

null

Parent institutions

parentIds

Optional

OpenAlex ids of parent institutions (institutions).

Type:array | null

Example:

Associated institutions

associatedInstitutions

Optional

Up to 10 related institutions with id, name and relationship (institutions).

Type:array | null

Example:

Description

description

Optional

Description (topics, concepts, funders, publishers).

Type:string | null

Example:

Natural language processing research …

Wikipedia

wikipedia

Optional

Wikipedia link (topics).

Type:string | null

Example:

null

Sibling topics

siblings

Optional

Up to 10 topics of the same subfield (topics).

Type:array | null

Example:

Level

level

Optional

Concept level 0–5 (concepts).

Type:integer | null

Example:

Grants count

grantsCount

Optional

Number of grants (funders).

Type:integer | null

Example:

100000

Entity

entity

Optional

OpenAlex entity of the row (concepts, funders, publishers and groupBy rows).

Type:string | null

Example:

works

Group by

groupBy

Optional

groupBy rows: the field the counts are grouped by.

Type:string | null

Example:

publication_year

Group key

key

Optional

groupBy rows: the group value (an id, year, code…). Always kept on groupBy rows, whatever fields says.

Type:string | number | boolean | null

Example:

2024

Group

keyDisplayName

Optional

groupBy rows: readable group name.

Type:string | number | null

Example:

2024

Count

count

Optional

groupBy rows: records in the group.

Type:integer | null

Example:

1234

Source

source

Optional

Always "openalex".

Type:string | null

Example:

openalex

Fetched at

fetchedAt

Optional

When the row was read, ISO-8601 UTC.

Type:string | null

Example:

2026-10-03T08:00:00.000Z

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