Get a single source

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

That will return an Source object, describing everything OpenAlex knows about the source with that ID:

{
    "id": "https://openalex.org/S137773608",
    "issn_l": "0028-0836",
    "issn": [
        "1476-4687",
        "0028-0836"
    ],
    "display_name": "Nature",
    // 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.

Sources are also available via an alias: /journals

External IDs

You can look up journals using external IDs such as an ISSN:

Available external IDs for sources are:

Select fields

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

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