Web of Science APIs Agentic Access

x-agentic-access generated

Web of Science APIs exposes 14 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 1 are state-changing ‘acting’ operations. This is a recommended x-agentic-access execution contract — the scope, audience, consequence tier, short-lived token constraints, and escalation each action should carry before it is handed to an autonomous agent.

By consequence: 13 read and 1 write.

Contracts are classified heuristically from the provider’s OpenAPI and refresh on every APIs.io network build; audience is bound per deployment. The model follows Curity’s Access Intelligence (apidays Munich 2026). Browse every provider’s agent contracts at agentic-access.apis.io.

ResearchAcademicBibliometricsCitationsScienceScholarly

Operations: 14 Acting: 1 Human-in-the-loop: 0 Method: generated

By consequence

read 13 write 1

Source

Agentic Access

generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/web-of-science-expanded-openapi.yml, openapi/web-of-science-starter-openapi.yml
description: Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts, classified heuristically from
  the OpenAPI. A governance starting point for exposing this API to AI agents — review and bind
  audience per deployment. See research/curity/agentic-governance/.
summary:
  operations: 14
  by_action_class:
    connected: 13
    acting: 1
  by_consequence:
    read: 13
    write: 1
  human_in_the_loop_required: 0
operations:
- path: /
  method: get
  operationId: searchDocumentsGet
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /
  method: post
  operationId: searchDocumentsPost
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: acting
    consequence: write
    subject: required
    audience: null
    token:
      max-ttl: 900
    escalation:
      human-in-the-loop: conditional
      triggers:
      - abnormal
      - high-value
    audit: required
- path: /query/{queryId}
  method: get
  operationId: getQueryResults
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /recordids/{queryId}
  method: get
  operationId: getRecordIds
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /id/{uniqueId}
  method: get
  operationId: getRecordById
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /citing
  method: get
  operationId: getCitingArticles
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /references
  method: get
  operationId: getReferences
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /related
  method: get
  operationId: getRelatedRecords
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /citation-report/{queryId}
  method: get
  operationId: getCitationReport
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /category-context/{uniqueId}
  method: get
  operationId: getCategoryContext
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /documents
  method: get
  operationId: searchDocuments
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /documents/{uid}
  method: get
  operationId: getDocument
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /journals
  method: get
  operationId: getJournals
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none
- path: /journals/{id}
  method: get
  operationId: getJournal
  x-agentic-access:
    action-class: connected
    consequence: read
    subject: optional
    token:
      max-ttl: 3600
    audit: none