Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Cristin Research Information API (NTNU institution 194)

Cristin is Norway's national Current Research Information System, operated by Sikt (the Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research) on behalf of every participating institution. NTNU's persons, units, projects and research outputs are reachable through the public Cristin v2 REST API under institution id 194. The data is NTNU's; the API, the contract and the host are Sikt's, shared with every other Norwegian institution.

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https://api.cristin.no/v2/doc/index.html

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ntnu:cristin
name: Cristin Research Information API (NTNU institution 194)
description: Cristin is Norway's national Current Research Information System, operated by Sikt (the Norwegian
  Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research) on behalf of every participating institution.
  NTNU's persons, units, projects and research outputs are reachable through the public Cristin v2 REST
  API under institution id 194. The data is NTNU's; the API, the contract and the host are Sikt's, shared
  with every other Norwegian institution.
humanURL: https://api.cristin.no/v2/doc/index.html
baseURL: https://api.cristin.no/v2/institutions/194
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-note: 'api.cristin.no is a national Sikt host shared across all Norwegian institutions; NTNU
  is an account (institution 194) on it. Probed 2026-08-30: /v2/institutions/194 200 application/json
  naming "Norwegian University of Science and Technology", acronym NTNU; /v2/results?institution=194 200;
  /v2/units?parent_unit_id=194.0.0.0 200 (30,259 bytes).'
method: probed
tags:
- Research
- CRIS
- Publications
- Open Data
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.cristin.no/v2/doc/index.html