Get a single source
It's easy to get a source from from the API with: /sources/<entity_id>
. Here's an example:
Get the source with the OpenAlex ID
S137773608
: https://api.openalex.org/sources/S137773608
That will return an Source
object, describing everything OpenAlex knows about the source 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.
Sources are also available via an alias: /journals
External IDs
You can look up journals using external IDs such as an ISSN:
Get the source with ISSN:
2041-1723
:https://api.openalex.org/sources/issn:2041-1723
Available external IDs for sources are:
Select fields
You can use select
to limit the fields that are returned in a source object. More details are here.
Display only the
id
anddisplay_name
for a source object https://api.openalex.org/sources/S137773608?select=id,display_name
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