Crossref
Public REST API for scholarly metadata — 150M+ works, DOIs, journals, funders, members, and licenses.
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.
Get DOI Prefix
Look up the steward (owning member) and metadata for a DOI prefix.
Get Funder by ID
Retrieve full metadata for a single funder from the Open Funder Registry by funder ID.
Get Journal by ISSN
Retrieve full metadata for a specific journal by ISSN, including deposit counts and publisher.
Get Member by ID
Retrieve full metadata for a single Crossref member organization by numeric ID.
Get Work by DOI
Retrieve the full metadata record for a single scholarly work by its DOI.
Get started automating Crossref
Ready-to-use workflows
Prompts using Crossref
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.