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post/academic/v1/paper_detail1 credit

full paper (abstract/authors/affiliations/venue/year/DOI/OA-PDF/fields); id=OpenAlex|DOI|arXiv|PMID; cross-source abstract gap-fill

Working example

Parameters

idrequired

Paper id — OpenAlex id (W…), OR DOI (10.…), OR arXiv id, OR PMID.

enrichoptional

Pull extra Crossref metadata (funders/license/references flag) for the paper.

rawoptional

Attach the raw OpenAlex record under paper._raw_openalex.

fill_abstractoptional

Gap-fill a missing OpenAlex abstract from arXiv/Crossref (default true).

request preview

curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/academic/v1/paper_detail \
  -H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"id":"W3177828909"}'

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