👩Authors
People who create works
Authors are people who create works. You can get an author from the API like this:
Get a list of OpenAlex authors:
https://api.openalex.org/authors
The Canonical External ID for authors is ORCID; only a small percentage of authors have one, but the percentage is higher for more recent works.
Our information about authors comes from MAG, Crossref, PubMed, ORCID, and publisher websites, among other sources. To learn more about how we combine this information to get OpenAlex Authors, see Author disambiguation
Authors are linked to works via the works.authorships property.
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