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Get lists of authors

You can get lists of authors:
Get all authors in OpenAlex
https://api.openalex.org/authors​
Which returns a response like this:
{
    "meta": {
        "count": 93011659,
        "db_response_time_ms": 150,
        "page": 1,
        "per_page": 25
    },
    "results": [
        {
            "id": "https://openalex.org/A5053780153",
            // more fields (removed to save space)
        },
        {
            "id": "https://openalex.org/A5032245741",
            // more fields (removed to save space)
        },
        // more results (removed to save space)
    ],
    "group_by": []
}
Page and sort authors
By default we return 25 results per page. You can change this default and page through works with the per-page and page parameters:
Get the second page of authors results, with 50 results returned per page
https://api.openalex.org/authors?per-page=50\&page=2​
You also can sort results with the sort parameter:
Sort authors by cited by count, descending
https://api.openalex.org/authors?sort=cited\_by\_count:desc​
Continue on to learn how you can filter and search lists of authors.
Sample authors
You can use sample to get a random batch of authors. Read more about sampling and how to add a seed value here.
Get 25 random authors
https://api.openalex.org/authors?sample=25​
Select fields
You can use select to limit the fields that are returned in a list of authors. More details are here.
Display only the id and display_name and orcid within authors results
https://api.openalex.org/authors?select=id,display\_name,orcid​

Get a single author

Filter authors

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