Web of Science Starter API
Real-time bibliographic verification and citation data from the Web of Science Core Collection, supporting document search by field-tag query, retrieval by accession number, and journal lookup by ISSN. The only Clarivate API with a plan anyone can obtain without a product subscription. Published contract: 4 operation(s).
Web of Science Starter API is one of 26 APIs that Clarivate publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Bibliometrics, Citations, Publications, Research Analytics, and Web of Science. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 4 operations across 4 paths, organized into 2 resource areas, and defines 7 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.0, at version 1.0.0.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://api.clarivate.com/apis/wos-starter/v1, https://api.clarivate.com/apis/wos-starter/v2.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Web of Science Starter 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. They span 2 resource areas: Journals, Documents. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Web of Science Journals
Web of Science Documents
Schemas 7
The contract defines 7 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Document (10 properties), Journal (8 properties), Metadata (3 properties), AuthorName (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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