//Source · Business intelligence

OpenAlex API

Find researchers and institutions by topic, with affiliations, works, citations and h-index, across 250 million works from an open scholarly graph.

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//Endpoints

What your agent can read from OpenAlex

Each one is a call your agent can make on its own, listed live with its price.

//Use cases

Where this source helps

Review a field

Papers, citations and software health.

PapersCitationsCode

Check who you deal with

Registries, owners, cases and sanctions.

RegistriesSanctions listsFilings

Feed your product’s agent

Typed records instead of raw pages.

MCPAPITyped JSON
//Q&A

Questions before you start

An OpenAlex id, a DOI or another id form the API reference lists. Pass whichever you have.

Yes. Each work says whether it is open access and how, with links to the best free version, its PDF and landing page.

OpenAlex updates daily from Crossref, PubMed, ORCID, ROR and other registries. New records usually appear within 24–48 hours.

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