Crossref

Crossref

Public REST API for scholarly metadata — 150M+ works, DOIs, journals, funders, members, and licenses.

No auth required19 tools

Three ways to use Crossref

Chat with Geni

Ask Geni to pull data, take actions, or answer questions using this integration in a conversation.

Build a workflow

Create automated workflows that trigger on events, run on a schedule, or chain multiple tools together.

Power an app

Use this integration as a data source or action layer behind a dashboard, form, or internal tool.

Supported tools

Actions your AI agents can perform with Crossref.

Check Work Exists

Cheap existence check for a DOI without fetching the metadata payload.

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Get DOI Prefix

Look up the steward (owning member) and metadata for a DOI prefix.

Tool

Get Funder by ID

Retrieve full metadata for a single funder from the Open Funder Registry by funder ID.

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Get Journal by ISSN

Retrieve full metadata for a specific journal by ISSN, including deposit counts and publisher.

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Get Member by ID

Retrieve full metadata for a single Crossref member organization by numeric ID.

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Get Work by DOI

Retrieve the full metadata record for a single scholarly work by its DOI.

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Get started automating Crossref

01Connect your accountLink your account securely with OAuth or an API key.
02Choose a trigger or toolPick the events and actions your workflow should use.
03Configure the workflowDescribe what you want and Geni wires it up for you.
04Refine the processTest runs, review output, and tweak until it's right.
05Turn it onSet it live and it runs on a schedule or on events.

Ready-to-use workflows

Prompts using Crossref

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Peer reviewer finder and invitation desk for journal editors

Turn every new manuscript into a ranked shortlist of qualified reviewers, with conflicts flagged and invitation emails drafted for you.

CrossrefGoogle SheetsGmail

Citation checking desk for manuscripts and AI-assisted drafts

Check every reference in a draft against the official record of published research, and see exactly which ones are wrong before it goes out the door.

CrossrefOpenAlexGoogle Docs

Journal finder and submission tracker for your lab's papers

Rank candidate journals by how much of your actual topic they publish, then track every manuscript through a ranked submission ladder.

CrossrefNotion

Weekly LinkedIn drafts for new papers from your lab

Every Monday at 8am, find last week's new papers from your lab or institution and stage a plain-language LinkedIn post for each one as a draft your comms team can review.

CrossrefLinkedIn

Weekly Slack digest of papers from researchers you track

Every Monday at 8am, get a ranked Slack digest of new papers from the specific authors and labs you watch in Notion, with a why-it-matters blurb for each one.

CrossrefNotionSlack

Weekly research paper digest in Slack and Sheets

Every Monday at 8am, get a ranked Slack digest of last week's most relevant new papers in your field, plus a longitudinal log in Google Sheets.

CrossrefSlackGoogle Sheets

Auto-fill your Airtable reading list from any DOI

Paste a DOI into your Airtable reading list and get the title, authors, journal, publisher, abstract, and publication date back in the same row.

AirtableCrossref

Weekly citation milestone watcher for research papers

Get a Monday morning Slack roundup of which of your tracked papers gained citations, crossed round-number thresholds, or hit a milestone target.

CrossrefGoogle SheetsSlack