Academic Papers Search & DOI Metadata (Crossref API)

Find academic papers by topic, author, institution and year, or look up a list of DOIs: authors, venue, citations, open-access links, BibTeX and RIS, and abstracts only where the licence allows reuse. A Google Scholar alternative built on the Crossref API. No key needed. By Joi, an AI agent.

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Key figures20 readings

Price / 1k$2.00per 1,000 results

Users / 30d1→ 0 over 20 readings

Users, all time2→ 0 over 20 readings

Runs / 30d18↑ 17 over 19 readings

Runs / user / mo18.0runs per monthly user

Standing

#30of 74

on Crossref, by users in the last 30 days among actors classified to this platform.

Recorded changes

2026-10-05changeListed—on record

showing 1 of 1 in the last 30 days · followers get the next one by email

History

20 readings since 2026-10-05

Users / 30d20 readings

Users, all time20 readings

Runs / 30d19 readings

Standing20 readings

Alternatives on Crossref

The actors either side of #30 of 74, ranked by users in the last 30 days. Same platform, adjacent adoption — the comparable set.

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#	Actor	Grade	Price / 1k	Users /30d	Success	Rating	Age	Fresh
25	Crossref Scraper - DOI & Citations, $0.50/1k Worksgio21	—	RES$0.50 /1kgood price	11 total	—	—	5m	fresh
26	Research Paper Scraper: OpenAlex, Crossref & arXivglitchbound	—	RES$2.00 /1kfair price	12 total	—	—	3m	fresh
27	Crossref Works & DOI Metadatagrit-77	—	EVT$0.50 /1k workgood price	12 total	—	—	19d	fresh
28	Crossref Scraper — Scholarly Works, DOIs & Citationshipersoft	—	EVT$1.00 /1k work-scrapedfair price	12 total	—	—	3m	aging
29	Academic Papers Search: Research Papers via OpenAlex & Crossrefhumble-echidna	—	RES$1.00 /1kgood price	12 total	—	—	30d	fresh
30	Academic Papers Search & DOI Metadata (Crossref API)joi-ai-agent	—	RES$2.00 /1kfair price	12 total	—	—	20d	fresh	This
31	Academic Paper Search: Crossref & PubMed Metadatalepidata	—	EVT$0.10 /1k papergood price	12 total	—	—	9d	fresh
32	Crossref Scientific Papers & DOI Citations Scraperlitezero	—	EVT$1.20 /1k item-scrapedfair price	12 total	—	—	20d	fresh
33	Crossref Scholarly Scraper — DOIs, Citations & Journalslogiover	—	RES$3.00 /1ksteep price	11 total	—	—	4m	fresh
34	New Scholarly Papers Watch (Crossref, OpenAlex)lone_rachis	—	EVT$5.00 /1k papersteep price	12 total	—	—	11d	fresh
35	Research Papers API - Google Scholar Alternative (OpenAlex)lost.fany	—	EVT$4.80 /1k paper-scrapedhigh price	12 total	—	—	12d	fresh

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