/orcid/researchers

POST /api/orcid/researchers

Price: 10 credits

Get an ORCID researcher profile by their ORCID iD

How to use it

Get the full public profile of a researcher from ORCID by their ORCID iD. Returns the researcher's name and alternative names, biography, keywords, links, verified countries and external identifiers (Scopus, ResearcherID, etc.), their employment, education, membership, qualification, distinction and service history with organizations and dates, a summary of their published works (title, type, journal, publication date and external ids like DOI), fundings and peer-review activity.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• orcid string required — ORCID iD of the researcher. Accepts the bare id, a dashed id, or the full orcid.org URL. (examples: "0000-0001-6187-6610", "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6187-6610"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "OrcidResearcher")
• orcid string required
• given_name string nullable
• family_name string nullable
• credit_name string nullable
• other_names array (default: [])
• biography string nullable
• keywords array (default: [])
• researcher_urls array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "OrcidResearcherUrl")
  • name string nullable
  • url string nullable
• emails array (default: [])
• countries array (default: [])
• external_identifiers array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "OrcidPersonExternalId")
  • type string nullable
  • value string nullable
  • url string nullable
• employments array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "OrcidAffiliation")
  • put_code integer nullable
  • role_title string nullable
  • department string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • start_date string nullable
  • end_date string nullable
  • organization object nullable
    • @type string (default: "OrcidOrganization")
    • name string required
    • city string nullable
    • region string nullable
    • country string nullable
    • disambiguated_id string nullable
    • disambiguation_source string nullable
• educations array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "OrcidAffiliation")
  • put_code integer nullable
  • role_title string nullable
  • department string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • start_date string nullable
  • end_date string nullable
  • organization object nullable
    • @type string (default: "OrcidOrganization")
    • name string required
    • city string nullable
    • region string nullable
    • country string nullable
    • disambiguated_id string nullable
    • disambiguation_source string nullable
• distinctions array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "OrcidAffiliation")
  • put_code integer nullable
  • role_title string nullable
  • department string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • start_date string nullable
  • end_date string nullable
  • organization object nullable
    • @type string (default: "OrcidOrganization")
    • name string required
    • city string nullable
    • region string nullable
    • country string nullable
    • disambiguated_id string nullable
    • disambiguation_source string nullable
• memberships array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "OrcidAffiliation")
  • put_code integer nullable
  • role_title string nullable
  • department string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • start_date string nullable
  • end_date string nullable
  • organization object nullable
    • @type string (default: "OrcidOrganization")
    • name string required
    • city string nullable
    • region string nullable
    • country string nullable
    • disambiguated_id string nullable
    • disambiguation_source string nullable
• qualifications array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "OrcidAffiliation")
  • put_code integer nullable
  • role_title string nullable
  • department string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • start_date string nullable
  • end_date string nullable
  • organization object nullable
    • @type string (default: "OrcidOrganization")
    • name string required
    • city string nullable
    • region string nullable
    • country string nullable
    • disambiguated_id string nullable
    • disambiguation_source string nullable
• services array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "OrcidAffiliation")
  • put_code integer nullable
  • role_title string nullable
  • department string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • start_date string nullable
  • end_date string nullable
  • organization object nullable
    • @type string (default: "OrcidOrganization")
    • name string required
    • city string nullable
    • region string nullable
    • country string nullable
    • disambiguated_id string nullable
    • disambiguation_source string nullable
• invited_positions array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "OrcidAffiliation")
  • put_code integer nullable
  • role_title string nullable
  • department string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • start_date string nullable
  • end_date string nullable
  • organization object nullable
    • @type string (default: "OrcidOrganization")
    • name string required
    • city string nullable
    • region string nullable
    • country string nullable
    • disambiguated_id string nullable
    • disambiguation_source string nullable
• works array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "OrcidWorkSummary")
  • put_code integer nullable
  • subtitle string nullable
  • type string nullable
  • journal_title string nullable
  • publication_date string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • external_ids array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "OrcidExternalId")
    • type string nullable
    • value string nullable
    • url string nullable
    • relationship string nullable
• fundings array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "OrcidFundingSummary")
  • put_code integer nullable
  • type string nullable
  • start_date string nullable
  • end_date string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • organization object nullable
    • @type string (default: "OrcidOrganization")
    • name string required
    • city string nullable
    • region string nullable
    • country string nullable
    • disambiguated_id string nullable
    • disambiguation_source string nullable
  • external_ids array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "OrcidExternalId")
    • type string nullable
    • value string nullable
    • url string nullable
    • relationship string nullable
• peer_reviews array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "OrcidPeerReviewSummary")
  • put_code integer nullable
  • reviewer_role string nullable
  • review_type string nullable
  • completion_date string nullable
  • review_group_id string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • convening_organization object nullable
    • @type string (default: "OrcidOrganization")
    • name string required
    • city string nullable
    • region string nullable
    • country string nullable
    • disambiguated_id string nullable
    • disambiguation_source string nullable
• work_count integer (default: 0)
• created_at integer nullable
• last_modified_at integer nullable
• claimed boolean nullable
• verified_email boolean 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 — Researcher 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.