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Academic Papers

Search scholarly papers, authors, citations and abstracts.

base /academic/v19 endpoints

post/academic/v1/search1 credit

search papers (source=openalex|arxiv|crossref|all; cursor pagination, year/OA/type filters, match=title, fulltext=)

Parameter	Required
query	required
source	optional
per_page	optional
cursor	optional
filter	optional
sort	optional
from_year	optional
to_year	optional
open_access	optional
type	optional
match	optional
category	optional
include_abstract	optional
fulltext	optional

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post/academic/v1/paper_detail1 credit

full paper (abstract/authors/affiliations/venue/year/DOI/OA-PDF/fields); id=OpenAlex|DOI|arXiv|PMID; cross-source abstract gap-fill

Parameter	Required
id	required
enrich	optional
raw	optional
fill_abstract	optional

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post/academic/v1/citations1 credit

papers that cite this work (cursor-paginated)

Parameter	Required
id	required
per_page	optional
cursor	optional

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post/academic/v1/references1 credit

works this paper references (hydrated)

Parameter	Required
id	required
limit	optional

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post/academic/v1/author1 credit

author search (query) or profile (id): works_count, h-index, affiliations; include_works for top papers

Parameter	Required
id	optional
query	optional
include_works	optional
works_limit	optional
per_page	optional

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post/academic/v1/institution1 credit

institution search/profile: ROR, country, geo, works/citation counts, h-index

Parameter	Required
id	optional
query	optional
per_page	optional

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post/academic/v1/venue1 credit

journal/venue search/profile: ISSN, publisher, OA/DOAJ, h-index, works/citation counts

Parameter	Required
id	optional
query	optional
per_page	optional

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post/academic/v1/autocomplete1 credit

fast typeahead suggestions (works/authors/sources/institutions)

Parameter	Required
q	required
entity	optional

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post/academic/v1/batch2 credits

hydrate up to 200 papers by id/DOI in one call (RAG/ETL)

Parameter	Required
ids	required
include_abstract	optional
limit	optional

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Example request · search

curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/academic/v1/search \
  -H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"covid"}'

Response shape

{
  "ok": true,
  "data": { /* the result */ },
  "meta": {
    "latency_ms": 240,
    "record_count": 12,
    "completeness_pct": 100
  },
  "error": null
}