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Elsevier Scopus APIs

Scopus delivers a comprehensive view of the world of research, allowing tracking, analysis, and visualization of research data across publishers, journals, books, conference proceedings, and trade publications.

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Elsevier Scopus APIs is one of 10 APIs that Elsevier publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Citations, Research, and Scientific. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 17 operations across 17 paths, organized into 9 resource areas, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 2.0, at version 2.0.

Requests are made against the base URL https://api.elsevier.com/content.

17 operations 17 paths 4 schemas 17 GET

Metadata

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Specification
OpenAPI 2.0
API Version
2.0
Base URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content
Resource Areas
9

Paths & Operations 17

Across 17 paths, the API surfaces 17 operations — 17 GET. They span 9 resource areas: Affiliation_Search, Author_Search, Scopus_Search, Abstract_Retrieval, Affiliation_Retrieval, Author_Retrieval, Abstract_Citation_Count, Citations_Overview, Serial_Title. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Affiliation_Search 1

Affiliation Search API

GET
/search/affiliation
Affiliation Search API
AffiliationSearch 5 params → 200
Author_Search 1

Author Search API

GET
/search/author
Author Search API
AuthorSearch 5 params → 200
Scopus_Search 1

Scopus Search API

GET
/search/scopus
Scopus Search API
ScopusSearch 5 params → 200
Abstract_Retrieval 6

Abstract Retrieval API

GET
/abstract/doi/{doi}
Abstract Retrieval API
AbstractRetrieval 5 params → 200
GET
/abstract/eid/{eid}
Abstract Retrieval API
AbstractRetrievalEID 5 params → 200
GET
/abstract/pii/{pii}
Abstract Retrieval API
AbstractRetrieval 5 params → 200
GET
/abstract/pubmed_id/{pubmed_id}
Abstract Retrieval API
AbstractRetrieval 5 params → 200
GET
/abstract/pui/{pui}
Abstract Retrieval API
AbstractRetrieval 5 params → 200
GET
/abstract/scopus_id/{scopus_id}
Abstract Retrieval API
AbstractRetrieval 5 params → 200
Affiliation_Retrieval 2

Affiliation Retrieval API

GET
/affiliation/affiliation_id/{affiliation_id}
Affiliation Retrieval API
AffiliationRetrieval 5 params → 200
GET
/affiliation/eid/{eid}
Affiliation Retrieval API
AffiliationRetrieval 5 params → 200
Author_Retrieval 2

Author Retrieval API

GET
/author/eid/{eid}
Author Retrieval API
AuthorRetrieval 5 params → 200
GET
/author/author_id/{author_id}
Author Retrieval API
AuthorRetrievalid 5 params → 200
Abstract_Citation_Count 1

Abstract Citation count API

GET
/abstract/citation-count
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AbstractCitationCount 7 params → 200
Citations_Overview 1

Citations Overview API

GET
/abstract/citations
Citations Overview
CitationsOverview 8 params → 200
Serial_Title 2

Serial Title API

GET
/serial/title
Serial Title Search
SerialTitleSearch 10 params → 200
GET
/serial/title/issn/{issn}
Serial Title Metadata
SerialTitleMetadata 5 params → 200

Schemas 4

The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are author (2 properties), affiliation (2 properties), scopus (2 properties), sciencedirect (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

sciencedirect
object
2 properties 1 required
scopus
object
2 properties 1 required
affiliation
object
2 properties 1 required
author
object
2 properties 1 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

elsevier-scopus-swagger.json Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
elsevier:elsevier-scopus-apis
Base URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content
Docs
https://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html
Provider
Elsevier
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