Tutorials
Step-by-step instructions for real use cases — on the web, through the API, or with your agent.
- Quick StartGet real data out of OpenAlex in five minutes — on the website, through the API, or by asking your agent.
- Analyze a Funder's Research PortfolioSee what a funder pays for: its top fields, how spending shifts over time, and which institutions win the most support.
- Audit an Author Profile's WorksSpot works missing from an author profile — and works wrongly attached — so you can clean it up.
- Break-down of my institution’s outputs by subject area (subfield)Use the website's Stats panel to chart an institution's publications across research subfields.
- Check if a journal’s works are in OpenAlexSearch a journal and see how many of its articles OpenAlex has indexed.
- Count incoming citations to any results setAdd up all the citations received by every work in any search or filter you've built.
- Download to your machinePull the full OpenAlex snapshot onto your computer with the AWS CLI.
- Estimate the APC fees my institution has paid to make research Open AccessApproximate what an institution has spent on article-processing charges, using OA status and journal prices.
- Find Collaboration OpportunitiesFind institutions that lead in your fields but you rarely co-author with — your best untapped partners.
- Which Journals Does Your Institution Cite?Walk your researchers' reference lists to see which journals they cite the most.
- How do I make the Unpaywall extension work on my site?Wire the Unpaywall extension's open-access lookups into your own website.
- How do I read JSONL files?Parse the snapshot's JSON Lines files line by line, with ready-to-run Python and R snippets.
- How do I use the title search API?Look up a work by its title through the Unpaywall-compatible title search endpoint.
- How many of each type of output does my institution have?Break an institution's output down by work type — articles, books, datasets, and more — on the website.
- How many outputs does my institution have?Get a running total of an institution's indexed works in a couple of clicks.
- How much is my institution’s work cited?Find the total number of citations an institution's research has earned.
- Identify other institutions that collaborate with researchers from my institutionRank the institutions your researchers co-publish with most.
- Map the SDG Research LandscapeCompare how countries contribute to each UN Sustainable Development Goal and see who leads.
- Quick RecipesA grab-bag of short, copy-paste API patterns for common questions.
- Systematic reviews with OQLBuild a reproducible systematic-review search in OQL — term blocks, exact vs. stemmed matching, and scope filters.
- Open Access Trends by YearChart the rise of open-access publishing over the past decade through the API.
- What percentage of my institution’s outputs are Open Access (OA)?See what share of an institution's output is open access, straight from the Stats panel.
- Which journals do researchers at my institution publish in?List the journals an institution's researchers publish in most often.
- Which of my institution’s outputs are contributions to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?Find which of an institution's works map to UN Sustainable Development Goals.
No tutorials match those filters yet — the library is growing.