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post/academic/v1/author1 credit

author search (query) or profile (id): works_count, h-index, affiliations; include_works for top papers

Working example

Parameters

idoptional

OpenAlex author id for a profile. Supply `id` OR a `query`/`name`.

queryoptional

Search text → ranked list. Supply this OR `id`.

include_worksoptional

Author profile only: also return the author's top works.

works_limitoptional

Max top works when include_works=true (1-200). (1–200)

per_pageoptional

Results per page (1-200, default 10); clamped. (1–200)

request preview

curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/academic/v1/author \
  -H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"yoshua bengio"}'

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