/crossref/works

POST /api/crossref/works

Price: 1 credit

Get a scholarly work (article, book, dataset, etc.) by its DOI

How to use it

Pass a DOI you already hold; to find one, start from crossref/works/search. The record is the publisher's own deposit, so an absent abstract, author list or funder means the publisher never deposited one — it is not evidence the paper has none, and asking again returns the same. To tell whether a paper has been retracted, corrected or flagged with an expression of concern, read `updated_by`; `update_to` says which earlier work this one is itself a notice about. Those entries carry only the fact and the date — the stated reason lives on retractionwatch/notices.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• doi string required — Work DOI (examples: "10.1037/0003-066X.59.1.29", "10.1145/3292500.3330701"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "CrossrefWork")
• doi string required
• title string nullable
• subtitle string nullable
• short_title string nullable
• original_title string nullable
• container_title array (default: [])
• short_container_title array (default: [])
• type string nullable
• publisher string nullable
• publisher_location string nullable
• member_id string nullable
• prefix string nullable
• language string nullable
• source string nullable
• abstract string nullable
• issn array (default: [])
• isbn array (default: [])
• volume string nullable
• issue string nullable
• page string nullable
• article_number string nullable
• issued_date string nullable
• published_date string nullable
• published_print_date string nullable
• published_online_date string nullable
• created_at string nullable
• deposited_at string nullable
• indexed_at string nullable
• score number nullable
• reference_count integer (default: 0)
• is_referenced_by_count integer (default: 0)
• subjects array (default: [])
• alternative_ids array (default: [])
• web_url string nullable
• resource_url string nullable
• event object nullable
  • @type string (default: "CrossrefEvent")
  • name string nullable
  • location string nullable
  • acronym string nullable
  • sponsors array (default: [])
  • start_date string nullable
  • end_date string nullable
• update_to array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "CrossrefWorkUpdate")
  • doi string required
  • type string nullable
  • label string nullable
  • source string nullable
  • record_id string nullable
  • updated_date string nullable
• updated_by array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "CrossrefWorkUpdate")
  • doi string required
  • type string nullable
  • label string nullable
  • source string nullable
  • record_id string nullable
  • updated_date string nullable
• authors array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "CrossrefAuthor")
  • given string nullable
  • family string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • sequence string nullable
  • orcid string nullable
  • is_authenticated_orcid boolean (default: false)
  • affiliations array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "CrossrefAffiliation")
    • name string required
• funders array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "CrossrefFunder")
  • name string required
  • doi string nullable
  • awards array (default: [])
• licenses array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "CrossrefLicense")
  • url string required
  • content_version string nullable
  • start_date string nullable
  • delay_in_days integer nullable
• links array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "CrossrefLink")
  • url string required
  • content_type string nullable
  • content_version string nullable
  • intended_application string nullable
• references array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "CrossrefReference")
  • key string nullable
  • doi string nullable
  • article_title string nullable
  • journal_title string nullable
  • author string nullable
  • year string nullable
  • volume string nullable
  • first_page string nullable
  • issn string nullable
  • isbn string nullable
  • unstructured string nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — Work not found Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.