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OpenAlex Global Universities & Research Institutions Lookup

Returns publication volume, total citation impact, ROR ID, and country for any university or research institute worldwide.

Call it (no API key)

GET https://api.agentdatahub.de/api/v1/call/openalex-institutions-search?query=Massachusetts%20Institute%20of%20Technology&compact=1

Full metadata: without compact=1 · Markdown: format=llm · Only some fields: add &fields=a,b.c · MCP: tool call_api with {"apiId":"openalex-institutions-search"}

Parameters

Example response (live, compact)

{
  "apiId": "openalex-institutions-search",
  "data_freshness": "stale_cache",
  "warning": "Upstream source unreachable: serving last known data from 16277s ago.",
  "data": {
    "query": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
    "institutions": [
      {
        "name": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
        "country_code": "US",
        "type": "education",
        "ror_id": "https://ror.org/042nb2s44",
        "works_count": 401144,
        "cited_by_count": 80570319,
        "homepage_url": "https://web.mit.edu"
      },
      {
        "name": "Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research At MIT",
        "country_code": "US",
        "type": "healthcare",
        "ror_id": "https://ror.org/01xd6q208",
        "works_count": 5508,
        "cited_by_count": 2210261,
        "homepage_url": "https://ki.mit.edu"
      },
      {
        "name": "Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard",
        "country_code": "US",
        "type": "healthcare",
        "ror_id": "https://ror.org/053r20n13",
        "works_count": 4763,
        "cited_by_count": 1157944,
        "homepage_url": "http://ragoninstitute.org/"
      }
    ]
  },
  "source": "OpenAlex Global Scientific Knowledge Graph (CC0)",
  "license": "CC0 1.0 Public Domain (OpenAlex)"
}

Recorded history available: /api/v1/history/openalex-institutions-search?query=Massachusetts%20Institute%20of%20Technology

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