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Web of Science Journals API

Journal-level metadata and metrics for every journal in the Journal Citation Reports covered by the Web of Science Core Collection, including the Journal Impact Factor, JCI, quartiles and category citation networks by JCR year. Published contract: 13 operation(s).

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Web of Science Journals API is one of 26 APIs that Clarivate publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Journal Citation Reports, Journal Impact Factor, Journals, and Research Analytics. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 13 operations across 13 paths, organized into 3 resource areas, and defines 42 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.clarivate.com/apis/wos-journals/v1.

13 operations 13 paths 42 schemas 13 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://api.clarivate.com/apis/wos-journals/v1
Authentication
API Key
License
Clarivate Content as a Service Licence
Resource Areas
3

Authentication & Security 1

Web of Science Journals API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as X-ApiKey (key). By default, every request must be authenticated.

Paths & Operations 13

Across 13 paths, the API surfaces 13 operations — 13 GET. They span 3 resource areas: Journals, Categories, last-updated. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Journals 7

Journals

GET
/journals
Search and filter across JCR Journals
12 params → 200
GET
/journals/{id}
Get journal by id
1 param → 200
GET
/journals/{id}/reports/year/{year}
Get journal metrics for a year
2 params → 200
GET
/journals/{id}/cited/year/{year}
Get journals that cite the journal for the JCR year
4 params → 200
GET
/journals/{id}/citing/year/{year}
Get journals that were cited by the journal for the JCR year
4 params → 200
GET
/journals/{id}/history
Get journal changes by id
1 param → 200
GET
/journals/history/title
Journal title changes by year
3 params → 200
Categories 5

Categories

GET
/categories
Search and filter across the journal categories
5 params → 200
GET
/categories/{id}
Get a category
1 param → 200
GET
/categories/{id}/reports/year/{year}
Get category metrics for a year
2 params → 200
GET
/categories/{id}/cited/year/{year}
Get journals that cite all journals in the category for the JCR year
4 params → 200
GET
/categories/{id}/citing/year/{year}
Get journals that were cited by all journals from the category for the JCR year
4 params → 200
last-updated 1
GET
/last-updated
Date of the last content update
→ 200

Schemas 42

The contract defines 42 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are JournalRecord (14 properties), Frequency (11 properties), CategoryReports (10 properties), JournalReports (10 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

JournalList
object
2 properties
JournalListRecord
object
8 properties
JournalRecord
object
14 properties
Categories
array
List of journal categories with related editions/databases
JournalCitationReport
array
List of all available Journal Citation Reports by year
OpenAccess
object
Journal open access status
2 properties
Publisher
object
Information about the journal publisher
4 properties
JournalData
object
Links to the Cited and Citing endpoints, with the total count of records.
2 properties
JournalReports
object
10 properties
JournalReportsJournal
object
Main information about the report journal
3 properties
ImpactMetrics
object
6 properties
InfluenceMetrics
object
2 properties
SourceMetrics
object
3 properties
CitationDistribution
object
7 properties
Ranks
object
JCR rank and ESI Total cites. Detailed information could be found on [this page](http://jcr.help.clarivate.com/Content/journal-profile-rank.htm)
6 properties
SourceData
object
Information about number of citable items in the JCR year. For the detailed description how this data is calculated please visit [this page](http://jcr.help.cl…
3 properties
JournalProfile
object
Journal Profile uses JCR year source data, and the two prior years to develop a picture of the countries, regions, and organizations that have published materi…
6 properties
JournalsCited
object
2 properties
JournalsCiting
object
2 properties
JournalHistoryRecord
object
Journal History record
5 properties
JournalsCitesJournal
object
2 properties
CategoryList
object
2 properties
CategoryListRecord
object
6 properties
CategoryRecord
object
6 properties 1 required
CategoryCitationReports
array
CategoryReports
object
10 properties 1 required
Jif
object
2 properties
Immediacy
object
3 properties
HalfLife
object
2 properties
Frequency
object
Number of journals in the category according to the number of times per year published
11 properties
CategoryReportsSourceData
object
Aggregate Source Data counting the number of citable items and the number of cited references in each type of item.
3 properties
CategoryData
object
2 properties
CategoriesCited
object
2 properties
CategoriesCiting
object
2 properties
CitedData
object
2 properties
CitingData
object
2 properties
Cites
array
Citable
array
Metadata
object
Information about total number of journals in the retrieve, number of recodrs on the page, and the page number.
3 properties
SearchMatch
object
Displays the field and value matched to the search string
2 properties
RankQuartileData
object
5 properties
JournalTitleYear
object
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

clarivate-wos-journal-openapi.json Raw ↑

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Base URL
https://api.clarivate.com/apis/wos-journals/v1
Docs
https://developer.clarivate.com/apis/wos-journal
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Clarivate
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