OpenAlex is an open and comprehensive catalog of scholarly works, providing API access to metadata on over 270 million works grouped by types such as articles, book-chapters, datasets, and preprints.
This provider-level handoff preserves only its public ID. No tool or business task is guessed; choose a current tool during rediscovery before setup can be treated as complete.
Get a list of OpenAlex works (including journal articles, books, datasets, and theses), with support for filtering by field: value pairs, keyword search across metadata, and grouping/aggregation by specified fields.
Retrieve a list of institutions with optional filtering using the filter parameter. Supports attribute filters like cited_by_count, country_code, is_super_system, lineage, openalex, repositories.host_organization, repositories.host_organization_lineage, repositories.id, ror, summary_stats.2yr_mean_citedness, summary_stats.h_index, summary_stats.i10_index, type, works_count, x_concepts.id, and convenience filters like continent, default.search, display_name.search, has_ror, is_global_south.
Retrieve a single institution by its entity ID, which can be an OpenAlex ID or an external ID such as ROR, MAG, or Wikidata.
Get a list of works with selected fields
Group authors with the group_by parameter to get counts by specified attributes
Get a list of authors in OpenAlex
Get a list of researcher profiles
Retrieve a single author by OpenAlex ID or external ID such as ORCID
Retrieve a single author profile by ID
Get a single researcher profile by ID
Autocomplete endpoint for authors entities. Returns a list of up to ten authors matching the query string, sorted by citation count.
Get autocomplete suggestions for authors
The autocomplete endpoint lets you add autocomplete or typeahead components to your applications for authors entities.
Autocomplete endpoint for concepts entities. Returns a list of up to ten concepts matching the query string, sorted by citation count.
The autocomplete endpoint lets you add autocomplete or typeahead components to your applications for concepts entities.
Autocomplete concepts for a fast type-ahead search based on display_name.
Autocomplete endpoint for funders entities. Returns a list of up to ten funders matching the query string, sorted by citation count.
The autocomplete endpoint lets you add autocomplete or typeahead components to your applications for funders entities.
Autocomplete funders to create a fast type-ahead search function based on display_name.
Autocomplete endpoint for institutions entities. Returns a list of up to ten institutions matching the query string, sorted by citation count.
