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Web of Science API Expanded

Rich searching across the Web of Science to retrieve full item-level metadata including times- cited counts, contributor addresses and affiliations, and funding data, plus related-record and citing-article discovery and a Citation Report endpoint. Published contract: 10 operation(s).

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Web of Science API Expanded 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 10 operations across 9 paths, organized into 2 resource areas, and defines 19 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.0, at version 1.0.0-oas3.

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

10 operations 9 paths 19 schemas 9 GET1 POST

Metadata

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Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.0
API Version
1.0.0-oas3
Base URL
https://api.clarivate.com/api/wos
Authentication
API Key
Resource Areas
2

Authentication & Security 1

Web of Science API Expanded 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 10

Across 9 paths, the API surfaces 10 operations — 9 GET, 1 POST. They span 2 resource areas: Search, Integration. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Search 8

Supports discovery and interrogation of Web of Science data.

GET
/
Submits a user query and returns results
16 params → 200400404429500
POST
/
Submits a user query and returns results
body → 200400404500
GET
/query/{queryId}
Fetch record(s) by query identifier
8 params → 200400404429500
GET
/related
Identify related records
15 params → 200400404429500
GET
/citing
Find citing items
14 params → 200400404429500
GET
/references
Find cited references by id
7 params → 200400404429500
GET
/category-context/{uniqueId}
Get categorization context about the citing/cited references of a given document
4 params → 200400404429500
GET
/citation-report/{queryId}
This operation returns a citation report based on query identifier. The report level is configurable and can be limited to WOS Core Collection or all databases. NOTE: Citation reports are only availa…
4 params → 200400404429500
Integration 2

Supports integration and data supplement activities.

GET
/id/{uniqueId}
Find record(s) by specific id
7 params → 200400404429500
GET
/recordids/{queryId}
Return IDs of records for a given query by a query identifier
4 params → 200400404500

Schemas 19

The contract defines 19 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ReferenceRecord (8 properties), WosRecordXML (5 properties), WosRecord (5 properties), CategoryContextResponseXML (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ReferenceResponse
object
2 properties
ReferenceResponseXML
object
2 properties
WosSearchResponse
object
2 properties
WosShortSearchResponse
object
2 properties
WosSearchResponseXML
object
2 properties
CitationReportResponse
array
CitationReportResponseXML
object
1 property
RetrieveResponse
object
1 property
RetrieveResponseXML
object
1 property
QueryResult
object
3 properties
ReferenceRecord
object
8 properties
WosRecord
object
5 properties 4 required
WosShortRecord
object
4 properties 4 required
WosRecordXML
object
5 properties 4 required
CategoryContextResponse
object
1 property
CategoryContextResponseXML
object
4 properties
CategoryContext
object
3 properties
CategoryContextXML
object
1 property
errorMessage
object
3 properties

Specification

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Source

clarivate-wos-openapi.json Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
clarivate:wos
Base URL
https://api.clarivate.com/api/wos
Docs
https://developer.clarivate.com/apis/wos
Provider
Clarivate
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