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OpenAlex Academic Research Search via AgentToll
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OpenAlex Academic Research Search via AgentToll is a paid API for AI agents from agenttoll.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.03/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Searches the OpenAlex academic literature database and returns scholarly works, authors, institutions, and research metadata matching a query.
Price / call$0.03
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
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Output
Returns a JSON object with a 'data' field containing an array or object of matching academic records (works, authors, institutions, or concepts depending on query), a 'meta' object with result count, source identifier, and generation timestamp, plus boolean 'success' and 'cached' flags.
Example use cases
Literature review for a research proposal
“Find me the top 20 academic papers on transformer neural network architectures — I need titles, authors, and sources to build out my literature review.”
Tracking scientific consensus on a topic
“Search OpenAlex for peer-reviewed studies on microplastics in drinking water — give me up to 15 results so I can see what the current research says.”
Finding researchers in a field
“Look up academic works and authors publishing on quantum error correction — return up to 10 results so I can identify the leading researchers in this area.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://agenttoll.dev/paid/academic/openalexWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need structured academic literature data from OpenAlex — the world's largest open scholarly graph — especially for research discovery, literature reviews, or citation lookups. Prefer over general web search when you need curated scholarly metadata (titles, abstracts, DOIs, citation counts) rather than raw web content.
Side effects
- Empty or overly broad query returns too many or irrelevant results
- Query with no matches returns empty data array with success:true
- Network timeout or upstream OpenAlex API unavailability returns error
- Invalid limit parameter type causes schema validation failure
- Payment failure in USDC/x402 prevents request from being processed
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | |
| query | string |
Output
Schema · Response
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| data | — | |
| meta | object | |
| cached | boolean | |
| success | boolean |
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