OpenAlex

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OpenAlex#

Brief Overview#

The OpenAlex API is an open catalog of the global research system created by the nonprofit OurResearch [1] . An API key is not required for this API, but providing your email in requests will provide faster and more consistent response times. Users are required to follow the rate limits of 100000 requests per user per day and 10 requests per second.

See the OpenAlex API documentation [2] for more information on accessing the API. Note that the data in the API is licensed under the Creative Commons CC0 license [3] , designating it as part of the public domain.

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