IEEE Xplore

IEEE Xplore Metadata Search API

REST endpoint for querying and retrieving metadata records and abstracts for more than 6 million documents in IEEE Xplore, including journals, conference proceedings, standards, books, and courses. Supports simple text search, Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), and fielded searches across article title, author, abstract, affiliation, publication title, DOI, ISBN, ISSN, article number, index terms, and more. Results are returned as JSON (default) or XML with a maximum of 200 records per request and pagination via start_record. API key required in every request via the apikey query parameter.

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https://developer.ieee.org/docs
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GettingStarted
https://developer.ieee.org/getting_started
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APIReference
https://developer.ieee.org/docs/read/Searching_the_IEEE_Xplore_Metadata_API

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
name: IEEE Xplore Metadata Search API
description: REST endpoint for querying and retrieving metadata records and abstracts for more than 6
  million documents in IEEE Xplore, including journals, conference proceedings, standards, books, and
  courses. Supports simple text search, Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), and fielded searches across
  article title, author, abstract, affiliation, publication title, DOI, ISBN, ISSN, article number, index
  terms, and more. Results are returned as JSON (default) or XML with a maximum of 200 records per request
  and pagination via start_record. API key required in every request via the apikey query parameter.
humanURL: https://developer.ieee.org/docs
baseURL: https://ieeexploreapi.ieee.org/api/v1/search/articles
tags:
- Science And Math
- Scholarly Publishing
- Engineering
- Metadata
- Search
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.ieee.org/docs
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.ieee.org/getting_started
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.ieee.org/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer.ieee.org/docs/read/Searching_the_IEEE_Xplore_Metadata_API
- type: SDKs
  url: https://developer.ieee.org/Python3_Software_Development_Kit
  title: Python 3 SDK
- type: SDKs
  url: https://developer.ieee.org/Java_Software_Development_Kit
  title: Java SDK