---
title: "OpenAlex API"
account: openalex
slug: openalex-api
---

# OpenAlex API

Scholarly metadata: search works, authors, journals, institutions, topics and funders across 250M+ papers

- Operations: 44
- Versions: 6 (latest `c19f2b12a2e3`)
- License: [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Homepage: https://openalex.org
- Contact: support@openalex.org
- Source: https://developers.openalex.org/api-reference/openapi.json
- OpenAPI document: https://skmtc.dev/openalex/apis/openalex-api/revisions/c19f2b12a2e3?raw

## Operations

44 in total, by tag:

- Works (2)
- Authors (2)
- Sources (2)
- Institutions (2)
- Topics (3)
- Keywords (2)
- Publishers (2)
- Funders (2)
- Autocomplete (1)
- Rate Limits (1)
- Changefiles (2)
- Domains (2)
- Fields (2)
- Subfields (2)
- SDGs (2)
- Countries (2)
- Continents (2)
- Languages (2)
- Awards (2)
- Concepts (2)
- Work Types (1)
- Source Types (1)
- Institution Types (1)
- Licenses (1)
- Indexes (1)

Every operation, with a link to its markdown: https://skmtc.dev/openalex/apis/openalex-api/llms.txt