Author research footprint: venues, topics, momentum (OpenAlex) API

Resolves an ORCID or OpenAlex author id to a footprint: h-index/i10, affiliations with ROR ids, top research topics, top publishing venues (via a works venue group-by), and recent yearly activity. Answers 'where does this researcher publish?', 'what are their main topics and how active are they lately?'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/science/scholar-author-network

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache86400s public

sciencescholarauthororcidh-indexopenalexvenuesfootprint

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/science/scholar-author-network

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "orcid": "0000-0003-1613-5981"
}

Example response

{
  "name": "Heather Piwowar",
  "orcid": "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1613-5981",
  "openAlexId": "https://openalex.org/A5048491430",
  "worksCount": 102,
  "citedByCount": 5566,
  "hIndex": 24,
  "i10Index": 32,
  "affiliations": [
    {
      "institution": "University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill",
      "country": "US",
      "ror": "https://ror.org/0130frc33"
    }
  ],
  "topTopics": [
    {
      "topic": "Research Data Management Practices",
      "works": 43
    }
  ],
  "topVenues": [
    {
      "venue": "Nature Precedings",
      "works": 16
    }
  ],
  "recentActivity": [
    {
      "year": 2009,
      "works": 1,
      "citations": 142
    }
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "orcid": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ORCID iD, e.g. 0000-0003-1613-5981"
    },
    "openAlexId": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "OpenAlex author id, e.g. A5048491430"
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}