# /opencitations/authors/works

`POST /api/opencitations/authors/works`

Price: 10 credits

List the works OpenCitations Meta attributes to one author. Each result is a full bibliographic record with title, coauthors, publication date, journal or book, volume, issue, pages, publisher and every identifier the work is known by

## How to use it

Attribution here follows the ORCID or agent id a publisher deposited, so it covers only the works where that author was credited with one and is not a complete bibliography — an author with no deposited ORCID returns nothing at all. An `omid:ra/` agent id, which every result carries inside its `authors`, reaches authors who have no ORCID.

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `id` (string, required) — ORCID of the author, or the OpenCitations Meta agent id, written with its prefix. An orcid.org address is accepted too (examples: "orcid:0000-0002-4189-3154", "omid:ra/065021087"; minLength: 1)
- `published_in` (string, nullable) — Keep only works whose publication date starts with this text, so `2020` takes a whole year and `2020-03` one month (examples: "2020"; minLength: 1)
- `work_type` (string, nullable) — Keep only works whose type contains this text, spelled as the `type` field of a result and matched without regard to case, so `journal article` keeps exactly that type while `article` keeps journal and proceedings articles alike (examples: "journal article", "book chapter"; minLength: 1)
- `sort_by` (string, nullable) — Field to order the works by (one of: "pub_date", "title", "venue", "type")
- `sort_order` (string, nullable) — Order direction, ascending unless stated (one of: "asc", "desc")
- `count` (integer, required) — Number of works to return (examples: 100; min: 1)

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "OpenCitationsWork")
- `omid` (string, nullable)
- `doi` (string, nullable)
- `pmid` (string, nullable)
- `pmcid` (string, nullable)
- `openalex` (string, nullable)
- `isbns` (array) (default: [])
- `other_ids` (array) (default: [])
- `type` (string, nullable)
- `pub_date` (string, nullable)
- `pub_year` (integer, nullable)
- `volume` (string, nullable)
- `issue` (string, nullable)
- `page` (string, nullable)
- `authors` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "OpenCitationsAgent")
  - `name` (string, required)
  - `omid` (string, nullable)
  - `orcid` (string, nullable)
  - `crossref` (string, nullable)
  - `other_ids` (array) (default: [])
- `editors` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "OpenCitationsAgent")
  - `name` (string, required)
  - `omid` (string, nullable)
  - `orcid` (string, nullable)
  - `crossref` (string, nullable)
  - `other_ids` (array) (default: [])
- `venue` (object, nullable)
  - `@type` (string) (default: "OpenCitationsVenue")
  - `name` (string, required)
  - `omid` (string, nullable)
  - `issns` (array) (default: [])
  - `isbns` (array) (default: [])
  - `other_ids` (array) (default: [])
- `publisher` (object, nullable)
  - `@type` (string) (default: "OpenCitationsAgent")
  - `name` (string, required)
  - `omid` (string, nullable)
  - `orcid` (string, nullable)
  - `crossref` (string, nullable)
  - `other_ids` (array) (default: [])

## Errors

### 422 — Validation Error

The request body did not validate

What to do: Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.

- `detail` (array)
  - `loc` (array, required)
  - `msg` (string, required)
  - `type` (string, required)
  - `input` (any)
  - `ctx` (object)

### 408

The request ran past its time limit

What to do: 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

The entity was not found, or a precondition failed

What to do: 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

What to do: 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

What to do: 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

What to do: Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

## Response envelope

Success: Array of objects (may be empty if no results)

Error: Error may coexist with partial results if it occurs mid-execution. Check X-Error header and status code.

Every response carries these 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.