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SYNTHORA OpenAlex Scholarly Works Search
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SYNTHORA OpenAlex Scholarly Works Search is a paid API for AI agents from openalex-works-search.hergertsynthora.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Full-text search across 240M+ scholarly works via OpenAlex, returning ranked results with title, DOI, authors, year, open-access status, citation counts, and concepts.
Price / call$0.001
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How this service works
Full-text search across 240M+ scholarly works via OpenAlex, returning title, DOI, authors, publication year, open-access status, citation counts and concepts as ranked JSON. Serves autonomous research agents and agent-to-agent literature-discovery pipelines needing a keyless scholarly ranking surface for citation graphs and evidence gathering. First 3 calls FREE per wallet — send header X-WALLET: 0x<addr>. No charge on upstream failure.
Output
A ranked JSON array of scholarly works matching the query, each containing title, DOI, author list, publication year, open-access status, citation count, and associated concept tags, wrapped in an ok/result envelope.
Example use cases
Evidence gathering for literature review
“Find me the most-cited scholarly papers on transformer neural networks so I can build a literature review — include authors, publication year, and citation counts for each.”
Open-access paper discovery
“Search for open-access academic works about antibiotic resistance in hospital settings and return the top results with their DOIs and concept tags.”
Citation graph seed discovery
“I need to seed a citation graph on climate tipping points — find me relevant scholarly works from OpenAlex including their DOIs and citation counts so I can trace the reference network.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://openalex-works-search.hergertsynthora.com/serviceWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need keyless, pay-per-call access to a broad scholarly literature search across 240M+ works with citation and open-access metadata, especially in autonomous agent pipelines that require no API key registration. Prefer it over direct OpenAlex API calls when operating in an x402 micropayment context or when building agent-to-agent literature discovery workflows.
Side effects
- Empty or vague query returns low-relevance or zero results
- Very narrow or misspelled queries may return no matches
- Rate limiting or payment failure returns a 402 error
- Highly specialized niche topics may have sparse coverage
- Network timeout if OpenAlex upstream is slow
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| query | string | query |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"ok": true,
"niche": "openalex-works-search",
"result": {}
}
}Tags
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