foreign-literature-search

You can search English social-science literature without an API key by using OpenAlex API queries. This approach runs multi-group AND keyword searches and post-filters results on titles and abstracts, returning deduplicated academic papers without requiring institutional access.

Yes, you can generate WoS boolean search strings from OpenAlex query results. The process produces Web of Science (SSCI) and Scopus-ready boolean query templates alongside categorized Excel files, enabling follow-up searches in institutional databases.

To export OpenAlex literature search results with journal ranking metadata to Excel, run multi-stage AND keyword searches with optional year range and quartile filtering. The output produces category-colored Excel files containing article metadata and journal quartile information.

OpenAlex supports multi-stage keyword searches for primary and supplemental literature sets. It builds a primary specific group query, applies post-filtering, and runs independent searches for research-object background and core theory terms to expand coverage.

If your OpenAlex keyword search returns too few results, the system applies an automatic relaxed fallback. This mechanism loosens the strict AND logic post-filtering on titles and abstracts to ensure you retrieve a sufficient number of relevant papers.

To find foreign academic papers for end-to-end literature searching workflows, apply OpenAlex-based discovery with multi-group AND keyword groups. This provides primary results plus supplemental background and theory sets, outputting categorized Excel files with journal metadata.