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Group authors

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Last updated 1 year ago

You can group authors with the group_by parameter:

  • Get counts of authors by the last known institution continent: ``

Or you can group using one the attributes below.

It's best to 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

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https://api.openalex.org/authors?group_by=last_known_institution.continent
read about group by
affiliations.institution.country_code
affiliations.institution.id
affiliations.institution.lineage
affiliations.institution.ror
affiliations.institution.type
cited_by_count
last_known_institution.country_code
last_known_institution.id
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
has_orcid
last_known_institution.continent
last_known_institution.is_global_south