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title: "OpenAlex integration | Growf"
description: "OpenAlex is an open catalog of scholarly works, authors, institutions, sources, topics, and related research metadata. Connect OpenAlex to Growf."
url: "https://www.growf.io/integrations/openalex/"
language: "en"
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Integration / Analytics & Data

![OpenAlex logo](https://logos.composio.dev/api/openalex)

# OpenAlex integration

OpenAlex is an open catalog of scholarly works, authors, institutions, sources, topics, and related research metadata.

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About OpenAlex

## OpenAlex is an open catalog of scholarly works, authors, institutions, sources, topics, and research metadata. Use it to discover research and enrich apps with structured academic metadata.

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Category

Analytics & Data, Developer Tools & DevOps

Connection

API key

Type

Tool

Actions

1002

Tags

library

Example prompts

## What you can ask Growf to do with OpenAlex

- “Find recent papers on causal inference”

- “List top authors in linguistics field”

- “Get citation count for a DOI”

Available actions

## 1002 actions your agents can run in OpenAlex

- Add Collection Entities  
Bulk-add one or more matching OpenAlex entity IDs to an owned collection without duplicating existing memberships.
- Autocomplete Entities  
Resolve a partial name or title to likely OpenAlex entity IDs before filtering or retrieving metadata.
- Create Collection  
Create a private, single-entity-type OpenAlex collection, optionally with an initial bounded set of entity IDs.
- Delete Collection  
Permanently delete exactly one owned private OpenAlex collection and all of its collection memberships. This does not delete the underlying OpenAlex entities.
- Download Work Content  
Download an OpenAlex-cached PDF or gzipped GROBID TEI file for a work. Choose the format matching the work's has\_content flags. Each call currently costs $0.01, and source copyright terms still apply.
- Get Collection  
Get metadata for one private OpenAlex collection owned by the connected user.
- Get Metadata Entity  
Retrieve one OpenAlex work, author, source, institution, topic, keyword, publisher, funder, award, taxonomy item, country, continent, or language by its supported identifier. Returns the provider's entity object directly; use select to limit its top-level fields.
- Get Rate Limit Status  
Validate the connected OpenAlex API key and inspect daily budget, prepaid balance, reset timing, and current endpoint costs before expensive queries or downloads.
- List Collection Entities  
List one page of entity IDs in an owned private collection together with collection metadata and page totals.
- List My Collections  
List private OpenAlex collections owned by the connected API-key user, optionally finding collections that contain an entity.
- Query Metadata Entities  
Search, filter, sort, sample, select, or group one OpenAlex metadata resource other than works, including authors, venues, organizations, taxonomy, geography, awards, and enumerations. Returns one cursor-controlled page.
- Query Works  
Search, filter, sort, sample, select, or group scholarly works. Returns one cursor-controlled page and its OpenAlex query cost; use the snapshot for whole-catalog exports.

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## Put OpenAlex to work inside Growf.

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