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Scholarly Papers Search (Google Scholar alternative, OpenAlex)

Search 250M+ scholarly works via the official OpenAlex API: DOI, authors, citations, open-access PDF links, abstracts. Input: queries, authorNames. Output (JSON/CSV): one row per item with title, publicationYear, venue, authors, citedByCount, isOpenAccess, pdfUrl, doi, isNew.

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What it's for

Literature reviews and citation-ranked reading lists
Find researchers / institutions for B2B outreach in a field
Alerts on new papers for a topic or author

Example input

{
 "queries": [
  "large language models agriculture"
 ],
 "authorNames": [
  "Geoffrey Hinton"
 ],
 "dois": [
  "10.1038/nature14539",
  "10.9999/not-a-real-doi-zz"
 ],
 "maxResultsPerQuery": 3,
 "sortBy": "citations",
 "monitorMode": true
}

Example output

{
  "input": "10.1038/nature14539",
  "openalexId": "https://openalex.org/W2919115771",
  "doi": "https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14539",
  "title": "Deep learning",
  "publicationYear": 2015,
  "publicationDate": "2015-05-26",
  "type": "article",
  "venue": "Nature",
  "publisher": "Nature Portfolio",
  "authors": [
    "Yann LeCun",
    "Yoshua Bengio",
    "Geoffrey E. Hinton"
  ],
  "institutions": [
    "Meta (United States)",
    "New York University",
    "Université de Montréal",
    "Google (United States)",
    "…"
  ],
  "citedByCount": 84498,
  "fwci": 3080.0301,
  "isOpenAccess": true,
  "oaStatus": "green",
  "pdfUrl": "https://hal.science/hal-04206682",
  "landingPageUrl": "https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14539",
  "topics": [
    "Neural Networks and Applications",
    "Advanced Neural Network Applications",
    "Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning"
  ]
}

Input reference

Field	Type	Notes
`queries`	array	Keywords searched in title, abstract and full text.
`authorNames`	array	Return works by the best-matching OpenAlex author.
`dois`	array	Look up specific papers by DOI or doi.org URL.
`fromYear`	integer	From year
`toYear`	integer	To year
`openAccessOnly`	boolean	Open access only
`workType`	string	Work type
`sortBy`	string	Sort by
`maxResultsPerQuery`	integer	Max results per query/author
`includeAbstract`	boolean	Include abstract
`contactEmail`	string	Sent to OpenAlex for its faster polite pool.
`monitorMode`	boolean	Remember seen works per query; later runs flag/output only new ones.
`stateStoreName`	string	State store name
`apiKey`	string	Free key from openalex.org/settings/api. Without it, runs share OpenAlex's small keyless daily budget and large jobs may stop with a budget error. With it, OpenAlex usage counts against your own free (10x) or paid budget.

Pricing

Pay per event: Paper record $0.001. Plus Apify's small per-run start fee. Apify's free plan includes monthly credit to try it.

How to run

Open the Store page and click Try for free.
Fill in the input (or paste the example JSON in the JSON tab).
Click Start, then export results as CSV, Excel or JSON, or call it via the Apify API.
Optional: add a Schedule and a webhook/Slack/email integration for ongoing monitoring.

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