National Institutes of Health

National Institutes of Health Publications API

The Publications API from National Institutes of Health — 1 operation(s) for publications.

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Operations 1

POST /v2/publications/search Search publications associated with NIH projects #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: NIH RePORTER Projects Publications API
  description: The NIH RePORTER API provides programmatic access to information about NIH-funded research projects and their associated publications. It supports search by fiscal year, principal investigator, organization, funding agency, activity code, project number, application identifier, PubMed identifier, award amount, and free-text criteria.
  version: 2.0.0
  contact:
    name: NIH RePORTER
    url: https://api.reporter.nih.gov
servers:
- url: https://api.reporter.nih.gov
  description: NIH RePORTER production
tags:
- name: Publications
paths:
  /v2/publications/search:
    post:
      tags:
      - Publications
      summary: Search publications associated with NIH projects
      description: Search publications linked to NIH-funded projects by PubMed identifiers, application identifiers, or core project numbers (with wildcard support).
      operationId: searchPublications
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                criteria:
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    pmids:
                      type: array
                      items:
                        type: integer
                    appl_ids:
                      type: array
                      items:
                        type: integer
                    core_project_nums:
                      type: array
                      items:
                        type: string
                offset:
                  type: integer
                  default: 0
                  maximum: 9999
                limit:
                  type: integer
                  default: 50
                  maximum: 500
                sort_field:
                  type: string
                sort_order:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                  - asc
                  - desc
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Paginated publication search results.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  meta:
                    type: object
                  results:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        coreproject:
                          type: string
                        pmid:
                          type: integer
                        applid:
                          type: integer