Get a single work
It's easy to get a work from from the API with:
/works/<entity_id> Here's an example:{
"id": "https://openalex.org/W2741809807",
"doi": "https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4375",
"title": "The state of OA: a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles",
"display_name": "The state of OA: a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles",
"publication_year": 2018,
"publication_date": "2018-02-13",
// 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 (tutorial).
You can look up works using external IDs such as a DOI:
- Get the work with this DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4375: https://api.openalex.org/works/https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4375
You can use the full ID or a shorter Uniform Resource Name (URN) format like so:
- Get the work with PubMed ID:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14907713: https://api.openalex.org/works/pmid:14907713
Available external IDs for works are:
External ID | URN |
|---|---|
DOI | doi |
Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) | mag |
PubMed ID (PMID) | pmid |
PubMed Central ID (PMCID) | pmcid |
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