Tutorials
Step-by-step instructions for real use cases — on the web, through the API, or with your agent.
Each tutorial walks a real project end to end, step by step — if you're new to OpenAlex, start with the Quickstart. If you're after a fast answer to a single task instead, the How-to guides are shorter.
The tutorials are organized into three sections:
Explore the literature
Map SDG Research: Every work carries automatic SDG tags — map global priorities with a few group_by calls.Systematic Reviews: A search strategy is a term tree, and OQL speaks it: one string for your methods appendix.Journals You Cite: No single API call answers this — cursor paging and batching build the picture, for ~2¢.
Profiles & partners
Find Collaborators: Cross your top topics with your co-author list to find leaders you’ve never worked with.Audit a Profile: Find the works a profile is missing — and the ones that belong to someone else. Under 1¢.Funder Portfolios: Watch a funder’s priorities drift over a decade — and who wins the most support.