Ieee Search
ieee_searchSearch the FULL IEEE Xplore corpus — IEEE and IET journal articles, conference proceedings, magazines, books, courses and standards — returning title, authors, abstract, publication venue, year, DOI and the IEEE Xplore link. The broad engineering / computer-science research tool: IEEE paper search, engineering research paper lookup, conference proceedings search, literature review on a technical topic, tracking one author's IEEE publications. Set content_type to focus on a single kind of record ("Conferences", "Journals", "Standards", "Magazines", "Books", "Courses", "Early Access"), or omit it to search every type at once. Returns metadata plus the abstract; the full text is sold by IEEE, so follow html_url to purchase or read it under an institutional subscription. Requires your own free IEEE Xplore API key via _apiKey (register an app at developer.ieee.org). Example: ieee_search({ query: "federated learning edge devices", limit: 10, _apiKey: "your-ieee-key" }). Example: ieee_search({ query: "millimeter wave beamforming", content_type: "Conferences", year: 2024, _apiKey: "your-ieee-key" })
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| year | No | Restrict to this publication year, e.g. 2024 (optional). | |
| limit | No | Max records to return (default 10, max 50). | |
| query | Yes | Free-text search across IEEE metadata (title, abstract, index terms), e.g. "federated learning edge devices", "lithium-ion battery state of charge estimation". | |
| author | No | Restrict to an author name, e.g. "Yoshua Bengio" (optional). | |
| _apiKey | Yes | Your IEEE Xplore Metadata API key, sent as the `apikey` query param. Free — register an app at https://developer.ieee.org. | |
| sort_by | No | Sort field (default relevance). | |
| sort_order | No | Sort direction (default desc when sorting by publication_year, asc otherwise). | |
| index_terms | No | Restrict to an IEEE or author index term, e.g. "Deep learning" (optional). | |
| content_type | No | Restrict to one IEEE content type (optional). Omit to search every content type at once. | |
| start_record | No | 1-based offset for paging through a large result set (default 1). | |
| publication_title | No | Restrict to a journal or proceedings title, e.g. "IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation" (optional). |