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type: question
id: 2
title: Which APIs and tools query scientific papers programmatically?
description: How researchers and agents retrieve papers, citation graphs and author metrics through APIs.
created: 2026-08-27
updated: 2026-09-27
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  isPublic: true
  inquiry: answered
  confidence: 0.94
  pillar: research-systems
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## Question

What APIs and Tooling Exist to Programmatically Query Scientific Papers and Scholar Data? How can researchers, developers, and autonomous agents programmatically retrieve academic publications, citation graphs, and author metrics?

## Why it matters

Agents that do research need reliable, programmatic access to the literature.

The full research is in the research notes.