get-lists-of-authors.md

Get lists of authors

You can get lists of authors:

• Get all authors in OpenAlex
  https://api.openalex.org/authors

Which returns a response like this:

{
    "meta": {
        "count": 93011659,
        "db_response_time_ms": 150,
        "page": 1,
        "per_page": 25
    },
    "results": [
        {
            "id": "https://openalex.org/A5053780153",
            // more fields (removed to save space)
        },
        {
            "id": "https://openalex.org/A5032245741",
            // more fields (removed to save space)
        },
        // more results (removed to save space)
    ],
    "group_by": []
}

Page and sort authors

By default we return 25 results per page. You can change this default and page through works with the per-page and page parameters:

• Get the second page of authors results, with 50 results returned per page
  https://api.openalex.org/authors?per-page=50\&page=2

You also can sort results with the sort parameter:

• Sort authors by cited by count, descending
  https://api.openalex.org/authors?sort=cited\_by\_count:desc

Continue on to learn how you can filter and search lists of authors.

Sample authors

You can use sample to get a random batch of authors. Read more about sampling and how to add a seed value here.

• Get 25 random authors
  https://api.openalex.org/authors?sample=25

Select fields

You can use select to limit the fields that are returned in a list of authors. More details are here.

• Display only the id and display_name and orcid within authors results
  https://api.openalex.org/authors?select=id,display\_name,orcid