← Scholarly Works (OpenAlex)
research by fourzerotwo
Papers citing a paper
Works that cite a given OpenAlex work id.
Papers citing a paper
Works that cite a given OpenAlex work id.
- price
- $0.003 / call
- free tier
- free allowance
- MCP tool
- scholarly__citing-works
- method
- GET
GET https://fourzerotwo.si/v1/scholarly/citing-works
| Param | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| work | string | Filter, e.g. cites:W2919115771 |
# unpaid: returns 402 with the price curl -i "https://fourzerotwo.si/v1/scholarly/citing-works?work=cites%3AW2919115771" # free tier: send a free key from https://fourzerotwo.si/free curl -H "X-API-Key: fzt_…" "https://fourzerotwo.si/v1/scholarly/citing-works?work=cites%3AW2919115771"
Use it from an AI agent (MCP)
Add the server once, then ask for this data in plain English. The agent finds the endpoint with search_apis and runs it with call_api.
{
"mcpServers": {
"fourzerotwo": { "type": "http", "url": "https://fourzerotwo.si/mcp" }
}
}
# the call the agent makes
call_api {"tool": "scholarly__citing-works", "arguments": {"work":"cites:W2919115771"}}
More from Scholarly Works (OpenAlex)
- Search papers — Full-text search of scholarly works, with citations, authors and open-access links.
- Paper by id or DOI — One work by OpenAlex id (W…) or "doi:10.…".
- Search authors — Researchers by name with h-index, works and citation counts.
- Author — One researcher by OpenAlex id or ORCID.
- Search institutions — Universities and research institutions with output stats.
- Search journals — Journals and repositories with impact stats.
- Search topics — Research topics and fields.
- Autocomplete works — Fast title autocomplete across works.
Source: OpenAlex (openalex.org), data CC0.