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Select fields
You can use
select to limit the fields that are returned in results.- Display works with only the
id,doi, anddisplay_namereturned in the resultshttps://api.openalex.org/works?select=id,doi,display\_name
"results": [
{
"id": "https://openalex.org/W1775749144",
"doi": "https://doi.org/10.1016/s0021-9258(19)52451-6",
"display_name": "PROTEIN MEASUREMENT WITH THE FOLIN PHENOL REAGENT"
},
{
"id": "https://openalex.org/W2100837269",
"doi": "https://doi.org/10.1038/227680a0",
"display_name": "Cleavage of Structural Proteins during the Assembly of the Head of Bacteriophage T4"
},
// more results removed for brevity
]
The fields you choose must exist within the entity (of course). You can only select root-level fields.
So if we have a record like so:
"id": "https://openalex.org/W2138270253",
"open_access": {
"is_oa": true,
"oa_status": "bronze",
"oa_url": "http://www.pnas.org/content/74/12/5463.full.pdf"
}
You can choose to display
id and open_access, but you will get an error if you try to choose open_access.is_oa.You can use select fields when getting lists of entities or a single entity. It does not work with group-by or autocomplete.
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