Group authors

You can group authors with the group_by parameter:

• Get counts of authors by the last known institution continent: https://api.openalex.org/authors?group_by=last_known_institution.continent``

Or you can group using one the attributes below.

It's best to read about group by before trying these out. It will show you how results are formatted, the number of results returned, and how to sort results.

/authors group_by attributes

• affiliations.institution.country_code

• affiliations.institution.id

• affiliations.institution.lineage

• affiliations.institution.ror

• affiliations.institution.type

• cited_by_count

• has_orcid

• last_known_institution.continent

• last_known_institution.country_code

• last_known_institution.id

• last_known_institution.is_global_south

• last_known_institution.lineage

• last_known_institution.ror

• last_known_institution.type

• summary_stats.2yr_mean_citedness

• summary_stats.h_index

• summary_stats.i10_index

• works_count