Academic Search
Search across 7 academic databases in one request
- One request searches 7 databases simultaneously
- Filter by year range, provider, and response fields
- Relevance-ranked and deduplicated results
Academic Search
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import { createClient } from "@pdfvector/client";const client = createClient({ apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY" });const result = await client.academic.search({ query: "transformer attention mechanism", providers: ["semantic-scholar", "pubmed", "openalex", "europe-pmc"], limit: 10, offset: 0, yearFrom: 2017, yearTo: 2025, fields: ["title", "authors", "year", "doi", "totalCitations"],});console.log(`Found ${result.estimatedTotalResults} results`);for (const paper of result.results) { console.log(`${paper.title} (${paper.year})`);}Key Features
7 Databases
Search PubMed, arXiv, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Europe PMC, ERIC, and Google Scholar in one request.
Relevance Ranking
Results are ranked by relevance with citation counts, publication dates, and source metadata.
Year Filtering
Filter results by publication year range to focus on recent or historical research.
Credit Costs
Simple, predictable pricing
per search request
Each search request costs 2 credits regardless of the number of results returned or providers queried.
Everything You Need for Document Processing
Parse, ask questions, and extract structured data from any document type
Academic Search(current)
Search across PubMed, arXiv, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, and more.
Academic Fetch
Fetch paper metadata by DOI, PMID, arXiv ID, or other identifiers.
Academic Parse
Convert a paper ID or provider URL into clean markdown from its public PDF.
Academic Find Citations
Find relevant citations for your text using semantic matching.
Academic Paper Graph
Get a paper's citing papers and references as full publication objects.
Academic Similar Papers
Find similar papers using citation network analysis with similarity scores.
Academic Search Grants
Search grants across Grants.gov, NIH RePORTER, CORDIS, and UKRI.