# OpenAlex Scholarly Works Search

> OpenAlex Scholarly Works Search is a paid API for AI agents from clonecho.builda.company, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Searches the OpenAlex research index by topic, returning scholarly works with venue, open-access status, citation counts, and author information.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clonecho.builda.company/x402/scholarly-works
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/openalex-scholarly-works-search-8dc7dd3a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ntZaQkKwixxh9iSNcNnEp

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-scholarly-works-search-8dc7dd3a -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you search the OpenAlex research index for scholarly papers on 'CRISPR gene editing' and show me the top results with their venues, citation counts, open-access status, and authors?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to search academic and scholarly literature by topic keyword and need structured metadata including venue, open-access flag, citations, and authors. Prefer over general web search when bibliometric data is required. Backed by OpenAlex, which indexes hundreds of millions of scholarly works.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or empty ?q parameter returns an error or empty result set
- Very broad or ambiguous queries may return irrelevant or overwhelming results
- Rare or highly specific topics may return few or no results
- Rate limiting or payment failure may block the request
- Network timeout if OpenAlex upstream is slow

## How this service works

SCIENCE: OpenAlex research index — search by topic for venue, open-access, citations, authors. ?q. Returns JSON.

## Output

Returns a JSON array of scholarly works matching the query, each including title, venue/journal, open-access status, citation count, and author details sourced from the OpenAlex research index.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/openalex-scholarly-works-search-8dc7dd3a/health.json
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