OpenCitations · Example Payload

Author Works

CitationsScholarlyResearchOpen ScienceBibliometricsDOIAcademic

Author Works is an example object payload from OpenCitations, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

exampleendpointrequestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "example": "Get all works authored by a person identified by ORCID",
  "endpoint": "GET /meta/v1/author/{id}",
  "request": {
    "url": "https://api.opencitations.net/meta/v1/author/orcid:0000-0002-8420-0696",
    "method": "GET",
    "headers": {
      "Accept": "application/json",
      "authorization": "YOUR-OPENCITATIONS-ACCESS-TOKEN"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": [
      {
        "id": "doi:10.3233/ds-190019 omid:br/06102227626",
        "title": "Extending the OpenCitations Data Model to enable the Annotation of bibliographic resources",
        "author": "Peroni, Silvio [orcid:0000-0003-0530-4305 omid:ra/0610122312]; Shotton, David [orcid:0000-0001-5506-523X omid:ra/0610120108]",
        "pub_date": "2019-11-25",
        "page": "43-61",
        "issue": "1",
        "volume": "2",
        "venue": "Data Science [issn:2451-8484 omid:br/06170171200]",
        "type": "journal article",
        "publisher": "IOS Press [crossref:1020 omid:ra/0610130982]",
        "editor": ""
      }
    ]
  }
}

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