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OpenAlex Scholarly Search: Works with Citations and Open-Access Links
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OpenAlex Scholarly Search: Works with Citations and Open-Access Links is a paid API for AI agents from twin.unykorn.org, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-01).
Searches the OpenAlex academic database for scholarly works, returning citation metadata and open-access links ranked by relevance or citation count.
Price / call$0.003
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How this service works
OpenAlex scholarly search: works with citations and open-access links — Genesis402 / UnyKorn Operator Network
Output
Returns a list of scholarly works from the OpenAlex database, each including the paper title, authors, publication year, journal/venue, abstract, citation count, and open-access PDF links where available. Results can be sorted by relevance or citation count and filtered by publication year range.
Example use cases
Literature review for research paper
“Find me the top 15 most-cited academic papers on CRISPR gene editing published since 2015 — I need open-access links and citation counts for a literature review.”
Discover recent AI safety research
“Search for scholarly works on 'AI alignment and safety', sorted by relevance, and give me up to 25 results so I can see what recent research exists in the field.”
Find open-access climate science papers
“Look up academic papers about ocean acidification and coral reef bleaching on OpenAlex, up to 10 results sorted by relevance, so I can find freely available studies to read.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://twin.unykorn.org/research/openalex-search?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need to search across the full OpenAlex scholarly corpus by keyword or topic, especially when you want open-access links alongside citation metadata. Prefer this over a DOI lookup (which requires a known identifier) when you're exploring a topic without specific paper references. Best for literature discovery, building reading lists, or identifying highly-cited foundational works in a field.
Side effects
- Empty query string returns an error or no results
- Query with no matching papers returns an empty result set
- Invalid sort enum value returns a validation error
- Limit exceeding 50 is rejected by schema validation
- Very broad or ambiguous queries may return low-quality mixed results
- from_year filter set to future year returns no results
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| params | object |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"ok": true,
"type": "openalex-search",
"receipt": {
"tx_hash": "0x<64hex>",
"amount_usd": 0.003,
"receipt_id": "g402-<16hex>"
},
"sources": [
{
"ok": true,
"name": "<source>"
}
],
"limitations": "<text>",
"generated_at": "<iso time>",
"evidence_hash": "sha256:<64hex>"
}
}Tags
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