CiteSeerX API

Overview

CiteSeerX is a scientific literature digital library focusing on computer and information science, with 10M+ documents and 100M+ citations. It provides autonomous citation indexing — extracting and linking citations without manual curation. The API supports document search, citation lookup, and metadata retrieval. Free, no authentication required.

API Endpoints

Base URL

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/api

Document Search

# Keyword search
curl "https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/api/search?q=graph+neural+networks&start=0&rows=20"