Web of Science APIs

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 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.  

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.

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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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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.

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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. 

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