# OpenAlex Academic Paper Search

> OpenAlex Academic Paper Search is a paid API for AI agents from jp-data-api-production.up.railway.app, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Searches academic literature via OpenAlex by keyword, returning titles, authors, year, venue, citation count, DOI, and abstract

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://jp-data-api-production.up.railway.app/papers/search
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/openalex-academic-paper-search-93e2c0f5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_kQIwDCTnyTwNOr-SjjPW4

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability openalex-academic-paper-search-93e2c0f5
```

Example prompt: Can you search for scholarly papers about 'transformer neural networks in natural language processing' and give me the titles, authors, citation counts, and DOIs?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need fast, structured academic paper search with metadata (DOI, citation counts, abstracts, authors) from the OpenAlex database — ideal for literature review automation, citation tools, or research agents that need scholarly references by keyword.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required query parameter 'q' returns a 400 or validation error
- Very broad or ambiguous queries may return irrelevant or low-quality results
- Rare or highly specialized topics may return few or no results
- Network or upstream OpenAlex API outage causes 500 error
- Payment failure (x402) blocks the request before it is processed

## How this service works

Academic paper search (OpenAlex): find scholarly works by keyword, returns title, authors, year, venue, citation count, DOI, abstract. For research agents, literature review, citation tools.

## Output

A list of academic papers matching the keyword query, each including title, authors, publication year, venue/journal, citation count, DOI, and abstract text — sourced from the OpenAlex scholarly database.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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