Documentation Index
Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developers.openalex.org/llms.txt
Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
Authors are people who create works. OpenAlex indexes tens of millions of disambiguated author profiles.
Filter, sort, and group_by fields
The API supports filtering, sorting, and grouping on authors fields. See Filtering, Sorting, and Grouping for syntax.
Fields marked (deprecated) are .search filters — use the search parameter instead.
Top-level
| Field | Sort | Group_by | Filter |
|---|
block_key | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
cited_by_count | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
display_name | ✓ | | ✓ |
from_created_date | ✓ | | ✓ |
has_orcid | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
id | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
openalex | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
openalex_id | | ✓ | ✓ |
orcid | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
scopus | | ✓ | ✓ |
to_created_date | ✓ | | ✓ |
to_updated_date | ✓ | | ✓ |
works_count | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Affiliations
| Field | Sort | Group_by | Filter |
|---|
affiliations.institution.country_code | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
affiliations.institution.id | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
affiliations.institution.lineage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
affiliations.institution.ror | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
affiliations.institution.type | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Concept
| Field | Sort | Group_by | Filter |
|---|
concept.id | ✓ | | ✓ |
Concepts
| Field | Sort | Group_by | Filter |
|---|
concepts.id | ✓ | | ✓ |
Default
| Field | Sort | Group_by | Filter |
|---|
default.search (deprecated) | | | ✓ |
Display Name
| Field | Sort | Group_by | Filter |
|---|
display_name.search (deprecated) | | | ✓ |
Ids
| Field | Sort | Group_by | Filter |
|---|
ids.openalex | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Last Known Institutions
| Field | Sort | Group_by | Filter |
|---|
last_known_institutions.continent | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
last_known_institutions.country_code | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
last_known_institutions.id | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
last_known_institutions.is_global_south | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
last_known_institutions.lineage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
last_known_institutions.ror | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
last_known_institutions.type | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Parsed Longest Name
| Field | Sort | Group_by | Filter |
|---|
parsed_longest_name.first | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
parsed_longest_name.last | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
parsed_longest_name.middle | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
parsed_longest_name.suffix | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Summary Stats
| Field | Sort | Group_by | Filter |
|---|
summary_stats.2yr_mean_citedness | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
summary_stats.h_index | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
summary_stats.i10_index | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Topic Share
| Field | Sort | Group_by | Filter |
|---|
topic_share.id | | ✓ | ✓ |
Topics
| Field | Sort | Group_by | Filter |
|---|
topics.id | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
X Concepts
| Field | Sort | Group_by | Filter |
|---|
x_concepts.id | ✓ | | ✓ |
