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It's easy to get an author from from the API with: /authors/<entity_id>
. Here's an example:
Get the author with the A5023888391
:
That will return an object, describing everything OpenAlex knows about the author with that ID:
You can make up to 50 of these queries at once by .
Authors are also available via an alias: /people
You can look up authors using external IDs such as an ORCID:
Get the author with this ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1298-3089
:
You can use the full ID or a shorter Uniform Resource Name (URN) format like so:
Available external IDs for authors are:
You can use select
to limit the fields that are returned in an author object. More details are .
Display only the id
and display_name
and orcid for an author object
ORCID
orcid
Scopus
scopus
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Wikipedia
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