Search sources

The best way to search for sources is to use the search query parameter, which searches across display_name, alternate_titles, and abbreviated_title. Example:

• Search for the abbreviated version of the Journal of the American Chemical Society "jacs": https://api.openalex.org/sources?search=jacs

Search a specific field

You can also use search as a filter, allowing you to fine-tune the fields you're searching over. To do this, you append .search to the end of the property you are filtering for:

• Get sources with "nature" in the title: https://api.openalex.org/sources?filter=display_name.search:nature

The following fields can be searched as a filter within sources:

You can also use the filter default.search, which works the same as using the search parameter.

Autocomplete sources

You can autocomplete sources to create a very fast type-ahead style search function:

• Autocomplete sources with "neuro" in the display_name: https://api.openalex.org/autocomplete/sources?q=neuro

This returns a list of sources with the publisher set as the hint:

{ 
  "results": [
    {
        "id": "https://openalex.org/S5555990",
        "display_name": "The Journal of Neuroscience",
        "hint": "Society for Neuroscience",
        "cited_by_count": 4274712,
        "works_count": 40376,
        "entity_type": "source",
        "external_id": "0270-6474"
    },
    // more results
  ]
}