OpenCitations · Example Payload

Metadata Lookup

CitationsScholarlyResearchOpen ScienceBibliometricsDOIAcademic

Metadata Lookup 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 bibliographic metadata for a DOI",
  "endpoint": "GET /meta/v1/metadata/{ids}",
  "request": {
    "url": "https://api.opencitations.net/meta/v1/metadata/doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-9632-7",
    "method": "GET",
    "headers": {
      "Accept": "application/json",
      "authorization": "YOUR-OPENCITATIONS-ACCESS-TOKEN"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": [
      {
        "id": "doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-9632-7 isbn:9781402096327 isbn:9789048127108 openalex:W4249829199 omid:br/0612058700",
        "title": "Adaptive Environmental Management",
        "author": "",
        "pub_date": "2009",
        "page": "",
        "issue": "",
        "volume": "",
        "venue": "",
        "type": "book",
        "publisher": "Springer Science And Business Media Llc [crossref:297 omid:ra/0610116006]",
        "editor": "Allan, Catherine [orcid:0000-0003-2098-4759 omid:ra/069012996]; Stankey, George H. [omid:ra/061808486861]"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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