> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.dataerai.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Works search

> Find publications across your workspace and the global OpenAlex graph, then import a paper — together with the papers it connects to and their authors and grants — into Dataerai.

Works search lets you find **publications (papers)**, not just assets. It searches
the works already in your workspace and, on demand, the global
[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org) scholarly graph — then lets you import a paper
and the first ring of papers around it into Dataerai.

It is the companion of [People search](/discover/people-search): people search is
author-rooted, works search is paper-rooted.

## Search for a work

<Steps>
  <Step title="Choose the Publications scope">
    Use the **Search in** selector to choose **Publications** (alongside
    **Assets** and **People**) — pick it from the search bar before you start, or
    switch to it after a search. Type a title or keyword in the search bar.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Local + web, merged">
    Dataerai searches the works already in your workspace and the OpenAlex graph
    at the same time, merges the two, and de-duplicates by OpenAlex id. An origin
    icon shows where each row came from — a pin for your workspace, a globe for
    the web. If the web search is slow or unavailable, Dataerai still returns your
    workspace results and shows an **OpenAlex results unavailable** note, so a
    lookup never fails outright or waits on an external service.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Frame caption="Publication results merge your workspace and external sources; **Search the web** brings in OpenAlex.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/dataerai/JYQfiA1164D5XDuO/images/discover-works-search.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=JYQfiA1164D5XDuO&q=85&s=d587572089c4d24550b6288d8bdcb6ea" alt="Publication search results" width="2560" height="1684" data-path="images/discover-works-search.png" />
</Frame>

## Find a person's publications

Add a **Person** clause to the Publications search to list a specific
researcher's papers. Pick the person from People search or the search box, and
the results narrow to publications they're on. A paper matches whether the
person is recorded on it as a **creator** or an **author** — scholarly sources
label the same authorship list either way, so neither term hides a paper. For a
person in your workspace who is linked to OpenAlex, the search also pulls their
not-yet-imported papers from the web.

## Import a work and travel down the tree

Each OpenAlex (web) row carries an **Import** action. Importing a paper runs a
**degree-1 cascade** — it fully populates the paper *and the first ring of papers
around it*:

| Edge                 | What it brings in                   |
| -------------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| **Referenced works** | The papers this paper cites         |
| **Related works**    | OpenAlex's topically-similar papers |
| **Citing works**     | The papers that cite this one       |

For the paper and every neighbour, Dataerai also imports the **authors** (as
lightweight stubs), **institutions**, **grants/funders**, **topics**, **sources
(journals)** and **keywords**, plus the citation and related-work **edges**
between them — so the slice of the literature you care about is fully connected
in your workspace.

<Note>
  The frontier closes after one hop: Dataerai does **not** recurse into a
  neighbour's own references. Each edge is capped, and a paper's first batch of
  neighbours imports immediately while the remainder drains in the background — so
  even a heavily-cited paper imports quickly and you can keep working.
</Note>

## What gets imported

| Entity                      | Source                        | Notes                                  |
| --------------------------- | ----------------------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| Work (root)                 | OpenAlex work                 | Idempotent — re-importing is a no-op   |
| Neighbour works             | referenced / related / citing | Capped per edge; remainder queued      |
| Authors                     | works' authorships            | Imported as stubs (no further cascade) |
| Institutions                | works' affiliations           | Batched and de-duplicated              |
| Grants                      | works' funding                | De-duplicated by funder + award        |
| Topics / Sources / Keywords | works' metadata               | Upserted with their work links         |
| Citation / related edges    | between imported works        | `WorkReference` + `WorkRelated`        |

Once imported, works and everything hanging off them are first-class in your
workspace — they show up in works search, asset attribution, and
[grant attribution](/attribution/grants).

<Note>
  Imports call OpenAlex on your behalf and write across your workspace, so they're
  rate-limited per user.
</Note>

## The publication detail sidebar

Click any Publications result to open its detail pane on the right — the same
surface assets and people use. The header (title, year, origin) shows instantly;
authors, funding, and metrics load just behind it. The pane works for both works
already in your workspace and ones still on the web (OpenAlex), so you can size a
paper up before importing it.

<Frame caption="Selecting a publication opens a detail sidebar with metrics, identifiers, authors, and external-metric links.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/dataerai/JYQfiA1164D5XDuO/images/discover-works-detail.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=JYQfiA1164D5XDuO&q=85&s=c60ffb9bd86059604893ebf9638df7dc" alt="Publication detail sidebar" width="2560" height="1684" data-path="images/discover-works-detail.png" />
</Frame>

**Authors and funders — open in place, or jump to the page.** Every author and
funder row offers two affordances:

* **Click the row** to swap the sidebar in place — an author opens the person
  pane (with an Import control if they're not in your workspace yet); a grant's
  funder opens the funder pane (its other grants and funded works). A
  **Back to publication** button returns you.
* **Click the ↗ icon** to go to that entity's own page instead — an author's
  `/people/:id`, or the funder on OpenAlex.

Publications and funders also have shareable permalink pages (`/works/:id`,
`/funders/:id`) — the same detail, full-width.

### Metrics

The pane surfaces what we already know about the paper, **as of the last sync**
(citation counts refresh on re-import, not live):

| Metric                       | Source                                                    |
| ---------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- |
| Cited by                     | OpenAlex citation count                                   |
| Field-weighted impact (FWCI) | OpenAlex                                                  |
| Open access                  | OpenAlex OA status                                        |
| In your workspace            | reference / citation / related counts from imported edges |

**Field-weighted impact (FWCI)** compares this paper's citations to the average
for papers in the same field and year — a value of `1.0` is exactly average, above
`1.0` is more-cited than its field. It's a per-paper measure, not a journal impact
factor.

For richer, third-party metrics, the **External metrics** row links out by DOI to
**Altmetric**, **Crossref**, **figshare**, and **Dimensions** — no data leaves
your workspace; these are just deep links to each system's view of the paper.