Web of Science data is uniquely selective, based on an independent editorial process combined with over 50 years of essential, accurate and unique curation, resulting in our unparalleled data structure. Every article from every journal has been indexed, creating a comprehensive and complete data network.
‘A significant improvement over a competitor’s APIs that I had been using in the past year. … Web of Science APIs return all the metadata, including author names, affiliations, addresses, and funding sources, among others. … the quality results from the Web of Science help us not only save time, but also perform error-free geographic and social network research.’
– Rick Shang, PhD in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis
Web of Science Group APIs seamlessly integrate the world’s best publication and citation data, giving you flexibility and control of the highest-quality and normalized bibliometric indicators. Power and enrich your institution’s analysis and assessment capabilities.
Who uses our APIs?
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check_circleEarly career researchers: to power bibliometric or informatics research
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check_circleLibraries: to support Open Access compliance and collections reviews
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check_circleAdministrators: to integrate with existing systems and get a trusted view of the research impact of their faculty and institution
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check_circleNational funding bodies: to assess research outputs and performance against national and international benchmarks
Web of Science Data Integration
The Clarivate Analytics Developer Portal is the central repository for information about our web services across our portfolio of products. On this page, you will find information and links to documentation about Web of Science APIs, including updated documentation for InCites and information about SOAP and REST-based Web of Science APIs.
What sets Web of Science data apart?
The world’s original citation index
Web of Science Core Collection provides cover-to-cover indexing back to 1900 across the world’s highest quality and most impactful publications.
Publisher-neutral curated quality
Our publication data are based on publications that have passed a robust evaluation and curation process by a team of experts, with in-house editors selecting content for quality and impact.
Historical depth
Over 115 years of comprehensive data so you can see the full scope of a discipline, capture the entire career of a researcher, and see the full impact of an institution.
Data completeness
We capture, index and link every piece of metadata for all items in the Web of Science Core Collection, across the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities from journals, books, and conference proceedings.
Available APIs
Article Match Retrieval
The Links Article Match Retrieval Service (AMR) allows for a real-time check of bibliographic metadata such as DOI, author, source title, etc., against the Web of Science Core Collection. This enables building article-level links to the Web of Science from external systems, and retrieving times-cited counts from the Web of Science.
Technical documentation
InCites
InCites is a citation-based evaluation tool for academic and government administrators to analyze institutional productivity and benchmark output against peers and aspirational peers in a national or international context. The InCites API provides article-level metrics to support integration in Research Management Systems or Current Research Information Systems (CRIS).
REST documentation
Web of Science API Lite
This API supports rich searching across the Web of Science Core Collection and retrieving core article-level metadata. Reuse this data in your public-facing applications, including institutional repositories and research networking systems.
REST documentation | SOAP documentation
Web of Science API – Expanded
Everything in the Lite API plus additional metadata, such as author, affiliations, identifiers and funding data.
REST documentation| SOAP documentation
Available APIs and associated data types
Web of Science API Lite
A responsive API that supports rich searching across the Web of Science Core Collection to retrieve core article metadata. This service provides a great way to reuse Web of Science data both internally and externally to enhance institutional repositories and research networking systems with best-in-class data.
*available for public display
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check_circleUT (Unique Identifier)*
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check_circleAuthors*
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check_circleAuthor keywords*
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check_circleDocument type*
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check_circleTitle*
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check_circleIssue*
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check_circlePages*
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check_circlePublication date*
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check_circleSource title*
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check_circleVolume*
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check_circleDOI*
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check_circleISBN*
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check_circleISSN*
Web of Science API Expanded
A robust and comprehensive API that delivers deep detail into the most valuable publication and citation information found in the Web of Science Core Collection. This service provides full bibliographic metadata to support and enrich your research output management systems with the information critical for analyses that drive decisions.
Includes everything in the Web of Science Lite API plus additional metadata, such as author, affiliations, identifiers and funding data.
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check_circleWoS API Lite fields*
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check_circleAbstract
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check_circleArticle number*
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check_circleAuthor variant names (full and WoS abbrev)
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check_circleAuthor address/affiliation
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check_circleAuthor to address linkage
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check_circleOrganization enhanced
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check_circleReprint/corresponding author and address
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check_circleAuthor order number*
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check_circleORCID ID*
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check_circleResearcher ID*
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check_circleSubject category*
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check_circlePMID*
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check_circleBook author*
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check_circleBook chapter count
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check_circleBook group author*
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check_circleBook series*
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check_circleConference title*
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check_circleEditor*
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check_circleFunding text
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check_circleGrant IDs
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check_circleGrant agencies
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check_circleGroup author*
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check_circleKeywords Plus
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check_circleLanguage*
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check_circlePublisher
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check_circleRelated records
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check_circleCiting articles
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check_circleCited references
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check_circleDOAJ Title flag
InCites API
InCites is a citation-based evaluation tool for academic and government administrators to analyze institutional productivity and benchmark output against peers and aspirational peers in a national or international context. The InCites API provides article-level metrics that efficiently deliver impact and contextual metrics for your Research Information Management Systems to enable and enhance metrics-based analyses.
*available for public display
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check_circleUT (Unique Identifier)*
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check_circleDocument type*
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check_circleTimes cited*
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check_circleJournal expected citations
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check_circleJournal normalized citation impact
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check_circleJournal Impact Factor (JIF)
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check_circleCategory expected citation rate
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check_circlePercentile
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check_circleCategory normalized citation impact
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check_circleESI highly cited paper (Yes/No)*
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check_circleESI Hot Paper (Yes/No)*
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check_circleInternational collaboration (Yes/No)*
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check_circleInstitutional collaboration (Yes/No)*
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check_circleIndustry collaboration (Yes/No)*
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check_circleOpen Access flag (Yes/No)*
Article Match Retrieval (AMR)
A publication matching API that enables real-time Web of Science bibliographic search to update citation counts in batch mode or real time, along with producing links back to Web of Science for further discovery and analyses.
*available for public display
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check_circleTimes cited*
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check_circleSource URL*
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check_circlePMID*
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check_circleCiting articles URL*
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check_circleUT (Unique Identifier)*
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check_circleRelated records URL*
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