Get a single author
It's easy to get an author from from the API with:
/authors/<entity_id>. Here's an example:That will return an
Author object, describing everything OpenAlex knows about the author with that ID:{
"id": "https://openalex.org/A2208157607",
"orcid": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6187-6610",
"display_name": "Jason Priem",
"display_name_alternatives": [],
"works_count": 49,
// other fields removed for brevity
}
You can make up to 50 of these queries at once by requesting a list of entities and filtering on IDs using OR syntax.
Authors are also available via an alias:
/peopleYou can look up authors using external IDs such as an ORCID:
- Get the author with this ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1298-3089: https://api.openalex.org/authors/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:
External ID | URN |
|---|---|
Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) | mag |
ORCID | orcid |
Scopus | scopus |
Twitter | twitter |
Wikipedia | wikipedia |
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