Academic Paper Search — Scholar Alternative (OpenAlex)

Search ~250M academic works (incl. arXiv preprints) with citation counts, authors, venues, DOIs and open-access links via the OpenAlex API — an open alternative to Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, Scopus & Web of Science. Does not scrape Google Scholar.

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Last 7 dayson this actor

1other change
2new rivals on Google Scholar

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Key figures30 readings

Price / 1k$40.00per 1,000 results

Users / 30d1↑ 1 over 30 readings

Users, all time31↑ 2 over 30 readings

Runs / 30d31↓ 6 over 30 readings

Runs / user / mo31.0runs per monthly user

Standing

#22of 44

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

Store search presence

2top-10 keywords

best #1 for “openalex”

openalex#1
scholar#10

re-crawled daily

Recorded changes

2026-10-24contentREADME updated+5,475 characters+5,475characters
2026-10-16searchKeyword rank moveentered top-10 for “scholar” (#11 → #10)—on record
2026-09-30searchKeyword rank moveentered top-3 for “openalex” (outside top 100 → #1)—on record

showing 3 of 10 in the last 30 days · followers get all 10 by email

History

30 readings since 2026-09-25

Users / 30d30 readings

Users, all time30 readings

Runs / 30d30 readings

Standing30 readings

Alternatives on Google Scholar

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#	Actor	Grade	Price / 1k	Users /30d	Success	Rating	Age	Fresh
17	Google All-in-One Scrapereasyapi	—	RES$9.90 /1kfair price	139 total	—	—	24m	aging
18	Google Scholar Scraper - Academic Papers Searchgio21	—	EVT$5.00 /1k paperfair price	12 total	—	—	5m	aging
19	Google Scholar Paper and Author Data Scraperkhadinakbar	—	RES$5.00 /1kgood price	110 total	—	—	5m	fresh
20	Research Papers API - Google Scholar Alternative (OpenAlex)lost.fany	—	EVT$4.80 /1k paper-scrapedfair price	12 total	—	—	12d	fresh
21	Developer Tools MCP — GitHub, npm, PyPI & Docs for Agentsnexgendata	—	RES$50.00 /1ksteep price	119 total	—	—	8m	fresh
22	Academic Paper Search — Scholar Alternative (OpenAlex)nexgendata	—	RES$40.00 /1khigh price	131 total	—	—	8m	fresh	This
23	Google Scholar Scraperparseforge	—	EVT$4.49 /1k result-itemgood price	14 total	—	—	3m	fresh
24	University Research MCP — AI Agent Academic Databasered.cars	—	EVT$100 /1k institution_reportsteep price	12 total	—	—	6m	fresh
25	Google Scholar Scraper - Papers, Citations, PDFss-r	—	EVT$3.00 /1k papergood price	16 total	—	—	6m	fresh
26	Google Scholar Author Metrics API - Citations & h-indexs-r	—	EVT$10.00 /1k author_profilehigh price	12 total	—	—	39d	fresh
27	Google Scholar Scraperscrapeai	—	RES$2.49 /1kgood price	12 total	—	—	24d	fresh

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