Api Endpoint

scholar-paper

Resolve one research paper and fuse its metadata across OpenAlex, Crossref, Unpaywall and Semantic Scholar into a single cited JSON. Give a doi, arxiv, pmid, pmcid, openalex_id or title and get canonical metadata, authors with ORCID and affiliations, venue, citation counts, an open-access PDF link and a full id crosswalk.

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Offering

Provider
payai.agentstools.dev
Method
GET
Offering type
Api Endpoint
Transport type
http
Category
Science And Education
Delivery
Not provided
Pricing model
Not provided
x402 version
2

Endpoint context

URL
https://payai.agentstools.dev/scholar/paper
MIME type
application/json
First seen
2026-10-16T02:01:31.612Z
Last seen
Tags
scholar, Research, paper, doi, citation, openalex, crossref, unpaywall, semantic-scholar, metadata, open-access, literature

Payment pricing

x402 payment terms are the authoritative price for calling this endpoint.

Payment option 1
0.02 USDC
Atomic price: 20000 · Network: eip155:8453 · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact
Payment option 2
0.02 USDC
Atomic price: 20000 · Network: solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact
Raw x402 terms
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    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "eip155:8453",
    "asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
    "amount": "20000",
    "payTo": "0xF22e558a00D91Ee12A1F50C52186FecB8dDFf493"
  },
  {
    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp",
    "asset": "EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v",
    "amount": "20000",
    "payTo": "AytHnvc6bZx1ALTy7b5Px7hcavoSYszG9aeKvDcZ8R1u"
  }
]

Observed health

Status
Healthy
Latest latency
364 ms
Average latency
6470 ms
HTTP status
402
Last checked
Reachability
90% over 10 checks

Latency is measured to the first response headers. A reachable result does not verify response accuracy or merchant identity.

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "GET",
        "HEAD",
        "DELETE"
      ]
    },
    "queryParams": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "doi": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "DOI, with or without a doi.org prefix"
        },
        "arxiv": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "arXiv id such as 2401.01234"
        },
        "pmid": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "PubMed id (digits)"
        },
        "pmcid": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "PubMed Central id such as PMC1234567"
        },
        "openalex_id": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "OpenAlex work id such as W2741809807"
        },
        "title": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Paper title to resolve by search"
        },
        "id": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Any single identifier; its type is auto-detected"
        }
      },
      "required": []
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "required": [
    "input"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "input": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "type",
        "method"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "type": {
          "type": "string",
          "const": "http"
        },
        "method": {
          "enum": [
            "GET",
            "HEAD",
            "DELETE"
          ],
          "type": "string"
        },
        "queryParams": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [],
          "properties": {
            "id": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "Any single identifier; its type is auto-detected"
            },
            "doi": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "DOI, with or without a doi.org prefix"
            },
            "pmid": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "PubMed id (digits)"
            },
            "arxiv": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "arXiv id such as 2401.01234"
            },
            "pmcid": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "PubMed Central id such as PMC1234567"
            },
            "title": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "Paper title to resolve by search"
            },
            "openalex_id": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "OpenAlex work id such as W2741809807"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "output": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "type"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "type": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "example": {
          "type": "object"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}