Announcing boolean searches in OpenAlex

[Jason Portenoy]

Hello all,

We're pleased to announce that you can now use complex search queries with nested boolean operators in OpenAlex! Any search (including filter search) queries with the words "AND", "OR", or "NOT" will trigger this behavior, which is powered by Elasticsearch's query string query. These words must be in UPPERCASE. Parentheses and quotation marks will be honored, allowing for complex queries like https://api.openalex.org/works?search="elmo" AND "sesame street" NOT (cookie OR monster)

You can read more about this new feature in the docs at: https://docs.openalex.org/how-to-use-the-api/get-lists-of-entities/search-entities#boolean-searches

Kindly,

Jason Portenoy