# Hamad Bin Khalifa University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/hbku/  
**Website:** https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/home  
**APIs profiled:** 11

Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) is a research-intensive graduate university founded in 2010 as part of Qatar Foundation, located in Education City, Doha, Qatar, and ranked #183 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. HBKU does not operate a centralized public developer portal or documented institutional API; its student information, academic catalog, and library discovery systems are gated behind authentication. The most significant public, machine-readable footprint is its scholarly research output, which is deposited in Manara - Qatar Research Repository, a Figshare-powered repository hosted by Qatar National Library that exposes HBKU works through Figshare's public REST API v2 and OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint.

## Kin Score — 41.0 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 41.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 68.1 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 50.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 38.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (11)

- **Figshare OAI-PMH (Manara - HBKU Research)** — Figshare exposes an OAI-PMH v2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint that provides access to public article metadata across the platform, including HBKU works hosted in Manara - Qatar ...
- **Hamad Bin Khalifa University altmetric API** — The altmetric API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 1 operation(s) for altmetric.
- **Hamad Bin Khalifa University articles API** — The articles API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 34 operation(s) for articles.
- **Hamad Bin Khalifa University authors API** — The authors API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 2 operation(s) for authors.
- **Hamad Bin Khalifa University collections API** — The collections API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 21 operation(s) for collections.
- **Hamad Bin Khalifa University institutions API** — The institutions API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 20 operation(s) for institutions.
- **Hamad Bin Khalifa University oauth API** — The oauth API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 1 operation(s) for oauth.
- **Hamad Bin Khalifa University other API** — The other API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 7 operation(s) for other.
- **Hamad Bin Khalifa University profiles API** — The profiles API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 2 operation(s) for profiles.
- **Hamad Bin Khalifa University projects API** — The projects API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 17 operation(s) for projects.
- **Hamad Bin Khalifa University symplectic API** — The symplectic API from Hamad Bin Khalifa University — 5 operation(s) for symplectic.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Hbku Agentic Access** — 157 operations · 81 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Hbku Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Hbku Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Hbku Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Open Access, Repository, Qatar, Middle East

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/hbku/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.