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Crossref API - Scholarly Works, DOIs, Citations

Search 160 million scholarly works registered with Crossref or look up DOIs: title, type, journal, publisher, publication date, authors and affiliations, citation and reference counts, volume, issue, pages, ISSN, subjects, funders, license, abstract and link.

$0.08 per 1,000 works

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What it returns

Search 160 million scholarly works registered with Crossref or look up DOIs: title, type, journal, publisher, publication date, authors and affiliations, citation and reference counts, volume, issue, pages, ISSN, subjects, funders, license, abstract and link.

Request

POST https://api.pushbuild.com/crossref-works/run with a JSON body. Send your key in the X-API-Key header.

FieldTypeDescription
querystring
authorstring
titlestring
funderstring
doisstringComma separated, for direct lookup.
fromDatestringYYYY or YYYY-MM-DD
toDatestring
typestring: , journal-article, book-chapter, proceedings-article, posted-content, book, dataset Default: "".
issnstring
sortstring: relevance, published, is-referenced-by-count, updated Default: "relevance".
maxItemsintegerMaximum items to return (1-500). Default: 100.

Example

curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/crossref-works/run \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxItems": 20}'

Response

{"count": 20, "truncated": false, "seconds": 1.4, "items": [ { ... } ]}

Each call returns up to 500 items. Records that fail validation or are not found are flagged in the items and not charged.

Pricing

Pay only for results returned: $0.08 per 1,000 works. No charge for errors or empty searches.

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