# SYNTHORA OpenAlex Scholarly Works Search

> 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 2026-09-15).

Full-text search across 240M+ scholarly works via OpenAlex, returning ranked results with title, DOI, authors, year, open-access status, citation counts, and concepts.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://openalex-works-search.hergertsynthora.com/service
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/synthora-openalex-scholarly-works-search-e06108d4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_zdZhPJoyURDcEhDMLvasR

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 synthora-openalex-scholarly-works-search-e06108d4 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search OpenAlex for scholarly works about CRISPR gene editing and give me the top results with their DOIs, citation counts, and open-access status.

## When to prefer this

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.

## Known failure modes

- 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

## 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.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "query"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "ok": true,
  "niche": "openalex-works-search",
  "result": {}
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/synthora-openalex-scholarly-works-search-e06108d4/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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