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POST
/
api
/
semanticscholar
/
authors
/
search
/semanticscholar/authors/search
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.anysite.io/api/semanticscholar/authors/search \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'access-token: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "query": "<string>",
  "count": 2,
  "timeout": 300
}
'
[
  {
    "id": "<string>",
    "@type": "@semanticscholar_author",
    "name": "",
    "affiliations": [],
    "paper_count": 0,
    "citation_count": 0,
    "h_index": 0,
    "homepage": "<string>",
    "web_url": ""
  }
]

Authorizations

access-token
string
header
required

API token from the dashboard

Headers

access-token
string
required

Body

application/json
query
string
required

Search query for authors

Minimum string length: 1
Examples:

"Yoshua Bengio"

"Geoffrey Hinton"

count
integer
required

Number of authors to return

Required range: x >= 1
timeout
integer
default:300

Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds)

Required range: 20 <= x <= 1500

Response

Successful Response

id
string
required
@type
string
default:@semanticscholar_author
name
string
default:""
affiliations
string[]
paper_count
integer
default:0
citation_count
integer
default:0
h_index
integer
default:0
homepage
string | null
web_url
string
default:""