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Suggest papers that should be cited alongside the given set.

Given a set of bibcodes (e.g. from a paper's bibliography), the citation helper returns papers that are frequently co-cited with the input set but are not yet included.

Export paper records in various citation formats.

Supports 18+ formats including BibTeX, AASTeX, RIS, EndNote, CSL-JSON, Dublin Core XML, VOTable, and more. Returns formatted citation text.

Manage ADS libraries (saved paper collections).

Actions:

• list: List all your libraries

• get: Get a library's details and bibcodes (requires library_id)

• create: Create a new library (requires name)

• edit: Edit library metadata (requires library_id)

• delete: Permanently delete a library (requires library_id)

Manage documents and notes within an ADS library.

Document actions:

• add/remove: Add or remove bibcodes from the library

• union/intersection/difference/copy/empty: Set operations with other libraries

Note actions:

• get_notes: List all notes in the library

• add_note/edit_note/delete_note: Manage notes on individual papers

Compute citation metrics for a set of papers.

Returns h-index, g-index, i10-index, citation counts, read counts, and time-series histograms. Works for 1 to ~2000 bibcodes.

Generate a collaboration or citation network from a set of papers.

• author: Groups authors who frequently co-author together

• paper: Clusters papers by shared references/citations to reveal sub-topics

Translate astronomical object names to ADS search queries via SIMBAD/NED.

Provide object identifiers (e.g. 'M31', 'Crab Nebula', 'NGC 1234') and get back an ADS query that matches papers about those objects.

Resolve free-text reference strings to ADS bibcodes.

Accepts human-readable reference strings and attempts to match them to records in ADS. Useful for identifying papers from partial citations.

Resolve available links for a paper (full text, data, citations, etc.).

Search the NASA ADS database.

Supports the full ADS query syntax including field-qualified searches, boolean operators, and functional operators.

Common query patterns:

• author:"Einstein, A" year:1905

• title:"dark matter" property:refereed

• abs:"gravitational waves" database:astronomy

To find citations and references of a paper:

• citations(bibcode:2016PhRvL.116f1102A) — papers that cite it

• references(bibcode:2016PhRvL.116f1102A) — papers it cites

Other functional operators:

• trending(abs:"exoplanet") — trending papers

• reviews(abs:"dark matter") — review articles

• useful(bibcode:2016PhRvL.116f1102A) — related useful papers

• similar(bibcode:2016PhRvL.116f1102A) — similar papers

Search within a specific set of bibcodes (big-query).

Useful for filtering, sorting, or retrieving metadata for a known set of papers. Provide up to 2000 bibcodes at once.