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These are the original OpenAlex Concepts, which are being deprecated in favor of . We will continue to provide these Concepts for Works, but we will not be actively maintaining, updating, or providing support for these concepts. Unless you have a good reason to be relying on them, we encourage you to look into instead.
It's easy to get a concept from the API with: /concepts/<entity_id>
. Here's an example:
Get the concept with the C71924100
:
That will return a object, describing everything OpenAlex knows about the concept with that ID:
You can make up to 50 of these queries at once by .
You can look up concepts using external IDs such as a wikidata ID:
Get the concept with wikidata ID Q11190:
Available external IDs for concepts are:
You can use select
to limit the fields that are returned in a concept object. More details are .
Display only the id
and display_name
for a concept object
Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG)
mag
Wikidata
wikidata