Get OpenAlex author ID — fp_get_openalex_author

Queries the OpenAlex bibliographic database (https://openalex.org) to retrieve an author's identifier.

Usage

fp_get_openalex_author_id(author = NULL, n = 10)

Arguments

author: a character vector of length 1. Name of the author.
n: an integer of length 1. Number of results to return (between 1 and 200, default is 10).

Value

A data frame with the following columns:

id: OpenAlex author ID
display_name: Author name in OpenAlex
orcid: ORCID identifier
works_count: Number of publications

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Be polite and send your email to OpenAlex API ----
options(openalexR.mailto = 'anonymous@mail.com')

fp_get_openalex_author_id("Nicolas Casajus")
#>            id    display_name               orcid works_count
#> 1 A5004806463 Nicolas Casajus 0000-0002-5537-5294         102

fp_get_openalex_author_id("Nicolas Mouquet")
#>            id    display_name               orcid works_count
#> 1 A5001034207 Nicolas Mouquet 0000-0003-1840-6984         210
} # }