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Group institutions

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Last updated 9 months ago

You can group institutions with the group_by parameter:

  • Get counts of institutions by country code:

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.

/institutions group_by attributes

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https://api.openalex.org/institutions?group_by=country_code
read about group by
continent
has_ror
is_global_south
cited_by_count
country_code
is_super_system
lineage
repositories.host_organization
summary_stats.2yr_mean_citedness
summary_stats.h_index
summary_stats.i10_index
type
works_count