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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 |
You must make sure that the ID(s) you supply are valid and correct. If an ID you request is incorrect, you will get no result. If you request an illegal ID—such as one containing a
, or &, the query will fail and you will get a 403 error.- Display only the
idanddisplay_namefor a work object https://api.openalex.org/works/W2741809807?select=id,display_name
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