Elsevier

Elsevier Citations Overview API

Citations Overview API

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Operations 1

GET /abstract/citations Citations Overview #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Elsevier Citations Overview API
  version: '2.0'
  description: 'Operations tagged Citations_Overview across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: elsevier-metadata-swagger.json, elsevier-scopus-swagger.json. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://api.elsevier.com/content
- url: http://api.elsevier.com/content
tags:
- name: Citations_Overview
  description: Citations Overview API
paths:
  /abstract/citations:
    get:
      tags:
      - Citations_Overview
      description: 'Abstract Citation API allows to retrieve citations given one of the document identifiers (DOI, PII, scopus_id or pubmed_id).

        API key in this example was setup with authorized CORS domains.'
      operationId: CitationsOverview
      parameters:
      - description: 'DOI document identifier. Example: 10.1016/S0014-5793(01)03313-0'
        in: query
        name: doi
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          default: 10.1016/S0014-5793(01)03313-0
      - description: 'PII document identifier. Example: S0014579301033130'
        in: query
        name: pii
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - description: 'Scopus ID document identifier. Example: 0037070197'
        in: query
        name: scopus_id
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - description: 'MEDLINE/pubmed_id document identifier. Example: 11852050'
        in: query
        name: pubmed_id
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - description: Your API key
        in: query
        name: apiKey
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          default: 7f59af901d2d86f78a1fd60c1bf9426a
      - description: Requested content type, overrides HTTP header value
        in: query
        name: httpAccept
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          default: application/json
      - name: insttoken
        in: query
        description: Specification for authorization, institution authtoken
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: access_token
        in: query
        description: Specification for active session, secured authtoken
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: No response was specified
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/stream'
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/stream'
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/stream'
      summary: Citations Overview
    servers:
    - url: https://api.elsevier.com/content
    - url: http://api.elsevier.com/content
x-refined-from:
- elsevier-metadata-swagger.json
- elsevier-scopus-swagger.json
x-apievangelist-provenance:
  method: searched
  source: https://dev.elsevier.com/elsdoc/engineeringvillage
  note: 'Verbatim copy is openapi/_original/elsdoc/elsevier-engineering-village-swagger.json. This copy differs from the source in exactly two mechanical ways: Elsevier''s external path $refs (./listings/<Name>#/<op>) were inlined from the provider''s own listing documents (also saved verbatim under openapi/_original/elsdoc/listings/), and info.title was filled in where the provider left it empty. No operation, parameter, response or schema content was authored by API Evangelist.'
  retrieved: '2026-09-06'