Web of Science APIs records API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Web of Science API Expanded citations records API
  description: The Web of Science API Expanded provides rich searching across the Web of Science based on your subscription to retrieve item-level metadata, including times-cited counts and contributor addresses and affiliations. It supports advanced search, citation analysis, related records discovery, reference retrieval, and bibliometric reporting with both JSON and XML output formats.
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: Clarivate Developer Support
    url: https://developer.clarivate.com/support
  license:
    name: Clarivate Terms of Use
    url: https://clarivate.com/legal/terms-conditions/
servers:
- url: https://api.clarivate.com/api/wos
  description: Web of Science API Expanded
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
- name: records
paths:
  /id/{uniqueId}:
    get:
      summary: Web of Science Expanded Get Records by Unique ID
      description: Retrieve one or more Web of Science records directly by their unique identifiers. Supports comma-separated lists of UIDs for batch retrieval. Returns full item-level metadata including addresses and affiliations.
      operationId: getRecordById
      tags:
      - records
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 100
      parameters:
      - name: uniqueId
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Single WOS unique identifier or comma-separated list of UIDs (e.g., WOS:000349044100001,WOS:000349044100002).
        schema:
          type: string
          example: WOS:000349044100001
      - name: databaseId
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Database identifier. Defaults to WOS.
        schema:
          type: string
          default: WOS
      - name: count
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Number of records to return.
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 10
      - name: firstRecord
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Starting record number.
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 1
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response with record details
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchResponse'
        '404':
          description: Record not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
components:
  schemas:
    DynamicData:
      type: object
      description: Dynamic data including citation counts
      properties:
        citation_related:
          type: object
          description: Citation count information
          properties:
            tc_list:
              type: object
              description: Times-cited list by database
    SearchResponse:
      type: object
      description: Response from search and retrieval operations
      properties:
        queryResult:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/QueryResult'
        records:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Records'
    QueryResult:
      type: object
      description: Metadata about the search query and result set
      properties:
        queryId:
          type: integer
          description: Identifier for this query (for subsequent pagination calls)
        recordsFound:
          type: integer
          description: Total number of records matching the query
        recordsSearched:
          type: integer
          description: Number of records searched (may differ from total database size)
    FullRecordMetadata:
      type: object
      description: Full record metadata including keywords and addresses
      properties:
        languages:
          type: object
          description: Publication language information
        keywords:
          type: object
          description: Author keywords and Keywords Plus
        addresses:
          type: object
          description: Author affiliation addresses
        fund_ack:
          type: object
          description: Funding acknowledgment information
    PubInfo:
      type: object
      description: Publication information
      properties:
        pubtype:
          type: string
          description: Publication type
        pubyear:
          type: string
          description: Year of publication
        sortdate:
          type: string
          description: Sort date
        issue:
          type: string
          description: Issue number
        vol:
          type: string
          description: Volume number
    WosRecord:
      type: object
      description: A full Web of Science record with all metadata fields
      properties:
        UID:
          type: string
          description: Web of Science unique identifier
        static_data:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/StaticData'
        dynamic_data:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/DynamicData'
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      description: Error response from the API
      properties:
        code:
          type: integer
          description: HTTP error code
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable error message
    RecordSummary:
      type: object
      description: Summary fields of a WOS record
      properties:
        names:
          type: object
          description: Author and editor names
        doctypes:
          type: object
          description: Document types
        titles:
          type: object
          description: Titles (article, source, etc.)
        pub_info:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/PubInfo'
        identifiers:
          type: object
          description: Document identifiers (DOI, ISSN, etc.)
    Records:
      type: object
      description: Container for record results
      properties:
        records:
          type: array
          description: Array of WOS records
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/WosRecord'
    StaticData:
      type: object
      description: Static (non-citation) metadata for a WOS record
      properties:
        summary:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/RecordSummary'
        fullrecord_metadata:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/FullRecordMetadata'
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-ApiKey
      description: Clarivate API key for Web of Science API Expanded