OpenAlex
ResearchUSapi.openalex.org
An open catalogue of 250 million scholarly works, authors, institutions, sources and topics.
Capabilities (12)
GET /v1/data/openalex/author1 creditReturns one author profile: display name and aliases, ORCID, affiliation history, works and citation counts, h-index and i10-index, yearly output, and their top topics.
GET /v1/data/openalex/authors1 creditReturns a page of 25 author profiles with display name, ORCID, last known institutions, works count, citation count and h-index.
GET /v1/data/openalex/autocomplete1 creditReturns up to 10 short suggestions for a partial name - id, display name, a disambiguating hint and works count - for the chosen entity type.
GET /v1/data/openalex/funders1 creditReturns a page of 25 funding bodies with country, alternate names, grant and works counts, citation counts and h-index.
GET /v1/data/openalex/institution1 creditReturns one institution: ROR id, canonical and alternate names, country, type, geo coordinates, parent and child institutions, works and citation counts, yearly output and top topics.
GET /v1/data/openalex/institutions1 creditReturns a page of 25 research institutions with ROR id, country, type, works and citation counts, and their associated institutions.
GET /v1/data/openalex/publishers1 creditReturns a page of 25 publishers with hierarchy level, parent publisher, country, the number of sources they own, and works and citation counts.
GET /v1/data/openalex/source1 creditReturns one source: ISSNs, publisher and host organisation, type, open-access and APC details, works and citation counts, h-index, yearly output and top topics.
GET /v1/data/openalex/sources1 creditReturns a page of 25 sources (journals, conference series, repositories) with ISSN, publisher, open-access status, APC price, works and citation counts and h-index.
GET /v1/data/openalex/topics1 creditReturns a page of 25 OpenAlex topics with their subfield, field and domain, a plain-language description, keywords and the number of works classified under them.
GET /v1/data/openalex/work1 creditReturns one scholarly work in full: title, abstract (as an inverted index), authors with affiliations, venue, open-access locations, citation count, topics, SDGs, grants and referenced works.
GET /v1/data/openalex/works1 creditReturns a page of 25 scholarly works (papers, books, datasets) with title, authorship, host venue, open-access status, citation count, topics and referenced works.
Licence
CC0 1.0. OpenAlex places its catalogue in the public domain; attribution is appreciated but not required.
https://docs.openalex.org/additional-help/faq#how-is-openalex-licensedAttribution
Display this wherever you show the data. It arrives on every response as provenance.attribution_text.
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