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

# List awards

> Get a list of research grants and funding awards.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json get /awards
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: OpenAlex API
  description: >-
    The OpenAlex API provides access to a comprehensive catalog of scholarly
    works, authors, sources, institutions, topics, keywords, publishers, and
    funders. OpenAlex indexes over 250 million scholarly works.
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: OpenAlex Support
    email: support@openalex.org
    url: https://openalex.org
  license:
    name: CC0
    url: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
servers:
  - url: https://api.openalex.org
    description: OpenAlex Production API
security:
  - apiKey: []
tags:
  - name: Works
    description: Scholarly documents like journal articles, books, datasets, and theses
  - name: Authors
    description: People who create scholarly works
  - name: Sources
    description: Journals, repositories, and other venues where works are hosted
  - name: Institutions
    description: Universities, research organizations, and other affiliations
  - name: Topics
    description: Research topics automatically assigned to works
  - name: Keywords
    description: Short phrases identified from works' topics
  - name: Publishers
    description: Companies and organizations that publish scholarly works
  - name: Funders
    description: Organizations that fund research
  - name: Autocomplete
    description: Fast typeahead search for any entity type
  - name: Domains
    description: Top-level categories in the topic hierarchy (4 total)
  - name: Fields
    description: Second-level categories in the topic hierarchy (26 total)
  - name: Subfields
    description: Third-level categories in the topic hierarchy (254 total)
  - name: SDGs
    description: UN Sustainable Development Goals (17 total)
  - name: Countries
    description: Geographic countries for filtering research by location
  - name: Continents
    description: Geographic continents (7 total)
  - name: Languages
    description: Languages of scholarly works
  - name: Awards
    description: Research grants and funding awards
  - name: Concepts
    description: Legacy taxonomy of research areas (deprecated - use Topics instead)
  - name: Work Types
    description: Types of scholarly works (article, book, dataset, etc.)
  - name: Source Types
    description: Types of sources (journal, repository, conference, etc.)
  - name: Institution Types
    description: Types of institutions (education, healthcare, company, etc.)
  - name: Licenses
    description: Open access licenses (CC BY, CC BY-SA, etc.)
paths:
  /awards:
    get:
      tags:
        - Awards
      summary: List awards
      description: Get a list of research grants and funding awards.
      operationId: listAwards
      parameters:
        - name: filter
          in: query
          description: >-
            Filter awards. Examples: `funder.id:F4320306076`, `start_year:2023`,
            `funded_outputs_count:>10` See [all Award
            fields](/api-reference/awards#available-filter-sort-and-group_by-fields).
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: sort
          in: query
          description: >-
            Sort by: `funded_outputs_count`, `amount`, `start_year`. Prefix with
            `-` for descending. See [all Award
            fields](/api-reference/awards#available-filter-sort-and-group_by-fields).
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: group_by
          in: query
          description: >-
            Group by: `funder.id`, `start_year`, `currency` See [all Award
            fields](/api-reference/awards#available-filter-sort-and-group_by-fields).
          schema:
            type: string
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/search'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/per_page'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/page'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/cursor'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/sample'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/select'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/api_key'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AwardsListResponse'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
components:
  parameters:
    search:
      name: search
      in: query
      description: >-
        Full-text search across titles, abstracts, and other text fields.
        Example: `search=machine learning`
      schema:
        type: string
    per_page:
      name: per_page
      in: query
      description: Number of results per page (1-100, default 25)
      schema:
        type: integer
        minimum: 1
        maximum: 100
        default: 25
    page:
      name: page
      in: query
      description: >-
        Page number for pagination. Use cursor for deep pagination beyond 10,000
        results.
      schema:
        type: integer
        minimum: 1
    cursor:
      name: cursor
      in: query
      description: >-
        Cursor for deep pagination. Use `cursor=*` to start, then use the
        `next_cursor` from the response.
      schema:
        type: string
    sample:
      name: sample
      in: query
      description: >-
        Return a random sample of N results (max 10,000). Cannot be used with
        sort or page.
      schema:
        type: integer
        maximum: 10000
    select:
      name: select
      in: query
      description: >-
        Comma-separated list of fields to return. Reduces response size.
        Example: `select=id,display_name,cited_by_count`
      schema:
        type: string
    api_key:
      name: api_key
      in: query
      description: >-
        Your OpenAlex API key (required). Get a free key at
        https://openalex.org/settings/api
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
  schemas:
    AwardsListResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        meta:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta'
        results:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/AwardFull'
    Meta:
      type: object
      description: Metadata about the query results
      properties:
        count:
          type: integer
          description: Total number of results matching the query
        db_response_time_ms:
          type: integer
          description: Database response time in milliseconds
        page:
          type: integer
          description: Current page number
        per_page:
          type: integer
          description: Number of results per page
        next_cursor:
          type: string
          description: Cursor for the next page (when using cursor pagination)
        groups_count:
          type: integer
          nullable: true
          description: Number of groups when using group_by
        cost_usd:
          type: number
          description: Cost of this request in USD
    AwardFull:
      type: object
      description: Research grant or funding award
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          example: https://openalex.org/G5859020988
          description: The OpenAlex ID for this award.
        display_name:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          description: The name of the award, if available.
        description:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          description: A description of the award, if available.
        funder_award_id:
          type: string
          description: The funder's internal ID for this award.
        funder:
          type: object
          properties:
            id:
              type: string
            display_name:
              type: string
            doi:
              type: string
              nullable: true
          description: The [funder](/api-reference/funders) of this award
        funded_outputs:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          description: OpenAlex IDs of works funded by this award (first 100).
        funded_outputs_count:
          type: integer
          description: Total number of works funded by this award.
        amount:
          type: number
          nullable: true
          description: The funding amount, if available.
        currency:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          description: The currency of the funding amount, if available.
        funding_type:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          description: The type of funding, if available.
        funder_scheme:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          description: The funder's scheme or program, if available.
        start_date:
          type: string
          format: date
          nullable: true
          description: Start date of the award (ISO 8601), if available.
        end_date:
          type: string
          format: date
          nullable: true
          description: End date of the award (ISO 8601), if available.
        start_year:
          type: integer
          nullable: true
          description: Start year of the award, if available.
        end_year:
          type: integer
          nullable: true
          description: End year of the award, if available.
        landing_page_url:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          description: URL to the award's landing page, if available.
        doi:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          description: DOI for this award, if available.
        provenance:
          type: string
          description: The source of this award data.
        lead_investigator:
          type: object
          nullable: true
          description: The lead investigator for this award, if available.
        co_lead_investigator:
          type: object
          nullable: true
          description: The co-lead investigator, if available.
        investigators:
          type: array
          nullable: true
          description: List of investigators on this award, if available.
        works_api_url:
          type: string
          description: A URL that returns all works funded by this award.
        created_date:
          type: string
          format: date
          description: When this award was added to OpenAlex (ISO 8601 date).
        updated_date:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: When this award was last updated (ISO 8601 datetime).
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: Error type
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable error message
  responses:
    BadRequest:
      description: Bad request - invalid parameters
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    RateLimited:
      description: Rate limit exceeded
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    apiKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: api_key
      description: >-
        Your OpenAlex API key. Get a free key at
        https://openalex.org/settings/api

````