# /repec/papers/citations

`POST /api/repec/papers/citations`

Price: 20 credits

List the RePEc records that cite one item, identified by its handle. Returns each citing record's handle, title, authors, the series or journal it appeared in and its year

## How to use it

Citation data comes from CitEc and covers only works that are themselves in RePEc, so the count here is smaller than a Google Scholar or Crossref count for the same paper and is not a substitute for one; /repec/papers reports the same number as `citation_count`. Citing records are ordered by their first author's name, not by date or by relevance, so a small `count` is an alphabetical slice rather than the most important citations.

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `id` (string, required) — RePEc handle of the cited item, or its EconPapers URL (examples: "RePEc:eee:jfinec:v:3:y:1976:i:4:p:305-360", "RePEc:nbr:nberwo:33000"; minLength: 1)
- `count` (integer, required) — Max number of citing records to return (examples: 100; min: 1; max: 20000)

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "RepecItemCard")
- `id` (string, nullable)
- `url` (string, required)
- `record_title` (string, required)
- `item_type` (string, nullable)
- `authors` (array) (default: [])
- `source_name` (string, nullable)
- `series_id` (string, nullable)
- `number` (string, nullable)
- `year` (integer, nullable)
- `keywords` (array) (default: [])
- `jel_codes` (array) (default: [])
- `created_date` (string, nullable)
- `modified_date` (string, nullable)
- `citation_count` (integer, nullable)
- `has_downloads` (boolean, nullable)
- `related_works` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "RepecRelatedWork")
  - `id` (string, nullable)
  - `record_title` (string, required)
  - `url` (string, required)
  - `kind` (string, nullable)
  - `relation` (string, nullable)
  - `source_name` (string, nullable)
  - `year` (integer, nullable)
  - `citation_count` (integer, nullable)

## 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

No RePEc item with this handle

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.