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OpenAlex API — The Full Scholarly Graph
250 million works, 90 million authors, and the citation graph that connects them — the largest fully open scholarly graph, queried as typed endpoints across 9 entity types.
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What You Can Pull From OpenAlex
/api/openalex/worksGet a single work (paper, book, dataset, preprint) by OpenAlex W-id, DOI, pmid:, or mag: identifier
/api/openalex/works/searchSearch 250M+ works by query with filters: publication date, type, OA status, author, institution, funder, topic and citation count
/api/openalex/works/citationsList the works that cite a given work (forward citation graph)
/api/openalex/works/referencesList the works referenced by a given work (backward citation graph)
/api/openalex/authorsGet an author by OpenAlex A-id or ORCID: names, affiliations, works & citation counts, h-index and top topics
/api/openalex/authors/searchSearch authors by name and filters
/api/openalex/institutionsGet an institution by OpenAlex I-id or ROR: name, country, type, associated works and citation metrics
/api/openalex/institutions/searchSearch institutions by name and filters
/api/openalex/sourcesGet a source (journal, repository, conference series) by OpenAlex S-id or ISSN
/api/openalex/sources/searchSearch sources (journals, repositories) by query and filters
/api/openalex/conceptsGet a concept by its identifier
/api/openalex/concepts/searchSearch concepts by query
/api/openalex/topicsGet a topic by its identifier
/api/openalex/topics/searchSearch topics by query
/api/openalex/fundersGet a funder by its identifier
/api/openalex/funders/searchSearch funders by query and filters
/api/openalex/publishersGet a publisher by its identifier
/api/openalex/publishers/searchSearch publishers by query and filters
/api/openalex/autocompleteAutocomplete OpenAlex entities (works, authors, institutions, sources, concepts…) from a partial query string
What Comes Back
{
"id": "W3177828909",
"doi": "10.1038/s41586-021-03964-9",
"title": "Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold",
"publication_year": 2021,
"cited_by_count": 31245,
"is_oa": true,
"oa_status": "hybrid",
"fwci": 148.2,
"authorships": [{ "author": "John Jumper", "institution": "DeepMind" }],
"primary_location": { "source": "Nature", "pdf_url": "https://…" }
}Built for These Jobs
Query the Open Scholarly Graph
Works, authors, institutions, and citations in one ask — 19 endpoints here, 500+ sources on the same key.
Common Questions
Four formats: an OpenAlex W-id, a DOI, a PubMed ID prefixed with pmid:, or a Microsoft Academic Graph ID prefixed with mag:. Pass whichever you have — the endpoint normalises them automatically.