Lens.org Scholarly and Patent API

Overview

Lens.org provides unified access to 300M+ scholarly articles and 150M+ patent records with cross-linkage between them. Uniquely, Lens connects academic research to patent citations, enabling innovation tracking and prior art discovery. The API offers full-text search, citation analysis, and patent-paper linkage. Free for non-commercial use with registration (up to 1,000 requests/day).

Authentication

# Register at https://www.lens.org/lens/user/subscriptions
# API token provided in your account settings
# Include in header: Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN

API Endpoints

Scholarly Search