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Type: 'scholar'
Academic papers with citation counts and PDF links. Pass type: 'scholar' to search:
const { results } = await microlink.search('attention is all you need', { type: 'scholar' })

results[0]
// {
//   title: 'Attention is all you need',
//   url: 'https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2017/hash/3f5ee243547dee91fbd053c1c4a845aa-Abstract.html',
//   description: '…to attend to all positions in the decoder…',
//   publisher: 'A Vaswani, N Shazeer, N Parmar… - Advances in neural …, 2017',
//   year: 2017,
//   citations: 249883,
//   pdf: { url: 'https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2017/file/3f5ee243547dee91fbd053c1c4a845aa-Paper.pdf' },
//   id: '5Gohgn6QFikJ'
// }
FieldTypeDescription
titlestringPaper title
urlstringPaper or abstract URL
descriptionstringPaper snippet
publisherstringAuthors, journal, and year in publisher line format
yearnumberPublication year
citationsnumberCitation count
pdf{ url }?Direct PDF link when available
idstringGoogle Scholar ID
Sort or filter by citations to surface the most impactful papers. Use pdf.url when the workflow needs the full document.
See the scholar guide for research and citation workflows.