Get a single concept

It's easy to get a concept from the API with: /concepts/<entity_id>. Here's an example:

That will return a Concept object, describing everything OpenAlex knows about the concept with that ID:

{
    "id": "https://openalex.org/C71924100",
    "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11190",
    "display_name": "Medicine",
    "level": 0,
    "description": "field of study for diagnosing, treating and preventing disease",
    // other fields removed for brevity
}

You can make up to 50 of these queries at once by requesting a list of entities and filtering on IDs using OR syntax.

External IDs

You can look up concepts using external IDs such as a wikidata ID:

Available external IDs for concepts are:

External ID
URN

Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG)

mag

Wikidata

wikidata

Select fields

You can use select to limit the fields that are returned in a concept object. More details are here.

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