Award object

These are the fields in an award object. When you use the API to get a single award or lists of awards, this is what's returned.

id

String: The OpenAlex ID for this award.

id: "https://openalex.org/G5453342221"

display_name

String: The name or title of the award, if available.

display_name: "Implementation of activities described in the Roadmap to Fusion during Horizon 2020 through a Joint programme of the members of the EUROfusion consortium"

description

String: A description of the award, if available.

description: "A Roadmap to the realization of fusion energy was adopted by the EFDA system at the end of 2012. The roadmap aims at achieving all the necessary know-how to start the construction of a demonstration power plant (DEMO) by 2030..."

funder_award_id

String: The award identifier as assigned by the funder (e.g., the grant number).

funder_award_id: "633053"

funder

Object: Information about the funder that issued this award. Contains:

• id: String — The OpenAlex ID for the funder

• display_name: String — The name of the funder

• ror: String — The ROR ID for the funder

• doi: String — The DOI for the funder

funder: {
    id: "https://openalex.org/F4320337670",
    display_name: "H2020 Euratom",
    doi: "https://doi.org/10.13039/100010687"
}

funded_outputs

List: A list of OpenAlex Work IDs that were funded by this award.

funded_outputs: [
    "https://openalex.org/W2959949293",
    "https://openalex.org/W3181133739",
    "https://openalex.org/W2755925992",
    // ... and more
]

funded_outputs_count

Integer: The number of works funded by this award.

funded_outputs_count: 1350

amount

Float: The monetary amount of the award, if available.

amount: 678800000.0

currency

String: The currency of the award amount (e.g., "USD", "EUR"), if available.

currency: "EUR"

funding_type

String: The type of funding provided (e.g., "grant", "fellowship"), if available.

funding_type: "grant"

funder_scheme

String: The specific funding scheme or program under which the award was made, if available.

funder_scheme: "EURATOM"

start_date

String: The start date of the award, formatted as an ISO 8601 date string, if available.

start_date: "2014-01-01"

end_date

String: The end date of the award, formatted as an ISO 8601 date string, if available.

end_date: "2022-12-31"

start_year

Integer: The year when the award started, if available.

start_year: 2014

end_year

Integer: The year when the award ends or ended, if available.

end_year: 2022

landing_page_url

String: A URL for the award's landing page, if available.

landing_page_url: "https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/633053"

doi

String: The DOI for this award, if available.

doi: "https://doi.org/10.3030/633053"

provenance

String: The source of this award data.

provenance: "crossref_work"

lead_investigator

Object: Information about the lead investigator (principal investigator) for this award, if available. Contains:

• given_name: String — The given name of the investigator

• family_name: String — The family name of the investigator

• orcid: String — The ORCID identifier of the investigator

• role_start: String — When the investigator started this role

• affiliation: Object — The investigator's institutional affiliation

lead_investigator: {
    given_name: "Jane",
    family_name: "Smith",
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-2345-6789",
    role_start: "2020-01-01",
    affiliation: {
        name: "University of Example",
        country: "US",
        ids: [
            {
                id: "https://ror.org/example",
                type: "ror",
                asserted_by: "publisher"
            }
        ]
    }
}

co_lead_investigator

Object: Information about the co-lead investigator, if available. Has the same structure as lead_investigator.

investigators

List: A list of all investigators associated with this award. Each investigator has the same structure as lead_investigator.

works_api_url

String: A URL that returns a list of works funded by this award.

works_api_url: "https://api.openalex.org/works?filter=awards.id:G5453342221"

created_date

String: The date this Award object was created in the OpenAlex dataset, expressed as an ISO 8601 date string.

created_date: "2022-12-12T12:41:08"

updated_date

String: The last time anything in this award object changed, expressed as an ISO 8601 date string.

updated_date: "2022-12-14T06:02:06"