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Get a single concept
It's easy to get a concept from from the API with:
/concepts/<entity_id>
. Here's an example:That will return a
Concept
object, describing everything OpenAlex knows about the concept with that ID:{
"id": "https://openalex.org/C71924100",
"wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11190",
"display_name": "Medicine",
"level": 0,
"description": "field of study for diagnosing, treating and preventing disease",
// 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.
You can look up concepts using external IDs such as a wikidata ID:
Available external IDs for concepts are:
External ID | URN |
---|---|
Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) | mag |
Wikidata | wikidata |
You can use
select
to limit the fields that are returned in a concept object. More details are here.- Display only the
id
anddisplay_name
for a concept object https://api.openalex.org/concepts/C71924100?select=id,display_name
Last modified 9mo ago