/openalex/authors
/openalex
/openalex/authors
Get an OpenAlex author by their identifier
**Price:** 1 credit
**💡 AI Hint:** Get full details of a researcher from OpenAlex by their identifier. Accepts an OpenAlex author id (A...) or a prefixed ORCID like orcid:<id>. Returns the author's name and name alternatives, ORCID, total works and citation counts, summary stats (h-index, i10-index, 2-year mean citedness), past and last-known institutional affiliations with years, main research topics with the share of the field they cover, top concepts, year-by-year work and citation counts, and the API link to their works.
**⚠️ Common errors:** 412: Author not found
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