Get a single publisher

It's easy to get a publisher from from the API with: /publishers/<entity_id>. Here's an example:

• Get the publisher with the OpenAlex ID P4310319965: https://api.openalex.org/publishers/P4310319965

That will return a Publisher object, describing everything OpenAlex knows about the publisher with that ID:

{
  "id": "https://openalex.org/P4310319965",
  "display_name": "Springer Nature",
  "alternate_titles": [
    "エイプレス",
    "Springer Nature Group",
    "施普林格-自然出版集团"
  ],
  "hierarchy_level": 0,
  // 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.

External IDs

You can look up publishers using external IDs such as a Wikidata ID:

• Get the publisher with Wikidata ID Q1479654: https://api.openalex.org/publishers/wikidata:Q1479654

Available external IDs for publishers are:

External ID	URN
ROR	ror
Wikidata	wikidata

Select fields

You can use select to limit the fields that are returned in a publisher object. More details are here.

• Display only the id and display_name for a publisher object https://api.openalex.org/publishers/P4310319965?select=id,display_name