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Web of Science Researcher API

Query and harvest Web of Science author records — researcher profiles, their documents and their peer-review record — searchable by ORCID, ResearcherID, author name, organization and country. Published contract: 4 operation(s).

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

Tagged areas include ORCID, Peer Review, Researchers, and Research Analytics. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 4 operations across 4 paths, and defines 18 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-researcher.

4 operations 4 paths 18 schemas 4 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-researcher
Authentication
API Key
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Web of Science Researcher 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 4

Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 4 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Researchers 4

Researcher data and metrics

GET
/researchers
Search researchers
5 params → 200default
GET
/researchers/{rid}
Get detailed information for a Researcher
1 param → 200
GET
/researchers/{rid}/peer-reviews
Get peer reviews list for a researcher
3 params → 200
GET
/researchers/{rid}/documents
Get documents published by a researcher
5 params → 200

Schemas 18

The contract defines 18 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ResearcherListRecord (10 properties), ResearcherRecord (8 properties), ResearcherDocumentRecord (7 properties), ResearcherAllTimeMetrics (6 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ResearcherList
object
A list of researcher output based on query and filters
2 properties
ResearcherListRecord
object
Object with basic researcher metadata in the list.
10 properties
Metadata
object
Information about total numbers in the retrieve, number of records on the page, and the page number.
3 properties
SearchMatch
object
Displays the field and value matched to the search string
2 properties
AuthorshipSearchMatch
object
A match when searching by topic, displays top documents from Web of Science Core Collection
4 properties
DocumentsCount
object
Number of documents for a Researcher
2 properties
ResearcherRecord
object
Object with basic researcher metadata in the list.
8 properties
ResearcherDocument
object
A list of researcher output based on query and filters
2 properties
ResearcherDocumentRecord
object
Object with basic researcher documents metadata in the list.
7 properties
Position
object
2 properties
Name
object
Details about Researcher names used for publishing
4 properties
Affiliation
object
4 properties
Ids
object
Researcher IDs
3 properties
ResearcherAllTimeMetrics
object
6 properties
PeerReview
object
6 properties
HighlyCitedResearcherYear
object
2 properties
PeerReviewList
object
2 properties
ErrorResponse
object
1 property

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

clarivate-wos-researcher-openapi.json Raw ↑

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