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
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.