Scholarly data APIs

OpenAlex

Open catalog of scholarly works, authors, sources, institutions, and topics for research data workflows.

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Primary use case

Open bibliographic data for analytics and discovery products

Best for

Builders wanting open scholarly metadata without proprietary lock-in

Not ideal for

Non-technical users who only read papers in a UI

You build open research data pipelines or bibliometrics

Semantic Scholar API alone meets your metadata needs