Get a single institution
It's easy to get an institution from from the API with: /institutions/<entity_id>
. Here's an example:
Get the institution with the OpenAlex ID
I27837315
: https://api.openalex.org/institutions/I27837315
That will return an Institution
object, describing everything OpenAlex knows about the institution with that ID:
You can make up to 50 of these queries at once by requesting a list of entities and filtering on IDs using OR syntax.
External IDs
You can look up institutions using external IDs such as a ROR ID:
Get the institution with ROR ID
https://ror.org/00cvxb145
: https://api.openalex.org/institutions/ror:https://ror.org/00cvxb145
Available external IDs for institutions are:
External ID | URN |
---|---|
ROR |
|
Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) |
|
Wikidata |
|
Select fields
You can use select
to limit the fields that are returned in an institution object. More details are here.
Display only the
id
anddisplay_name
for an institution object https://api.openalex.org/institutions/I27837315?select=id,display_name
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