Struct Author 

pub struct Author {

    pub id: String,
    pub orcid: Option<String>,
    pub display_name: Option<String>,
    pub display_name_alternatives: Option<Vec<String>>,
    pub works_count: Option<i64>,
    pub cited_by_count: Option<i64>,
    pub summary_stats: Option<SummaryStats>,
    pub ids: Option<AuthorIds>,
    pub affiliations: Option<Vec<Affiliation>>,
    pub last_known_institutions: Option<Vec<DehydratedInstitution>>,
    pub topics: Option<Vec<TopicWithScore>>,
    pub topic_share: Option<Vec<TopicShare>>,
    pub x_concepts: Option<Vec<Concept>>,
    pub counts_by_year: Option<Vec<CountsByYear>>,
    pub works_api_url: Option<String>,
    pub updated_date: Option<String>,
    pub created_date: Option<String>,
}

A disambiguated author profile in OpenAlex.

OpenAlex contains 110M+ author profiles. Each author has a unified identity across name variants, with linked ORCID, institutional affiliations over time, publication history, citation metrics, and topic expertise.

Example

{
  "id": "https://openalex.org/A5023888391",
  "orcid": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6187-6610",
  "display_name": "Jason Priem",
  "works_count": 49,
  "cited_by_count": 4215,
  "summary_stats": {"2yr_mean_citedness": 4.065, "h_index": 20, "i10_index": 30},
  "affiliations": [{"institution": {...}, "years": [2022, 2021, 2020]}]
}

ID formats

Authors can be retrieved by OpenAlex ID (A...) or ORCID.

Fields

id: String

OpenAlex ID URI (e.g. "https://openalex.org/A5023888391").

orcid: Option<String>

ORCID URL (e.g. "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6187-6610").

display_name: Option<String>

Primary display name for this author.

display_name_alternatives: Option<Vec<String>>

Alternative name variants (e.g. maiden names, transliterations).

works_count: Option<i64>

Total number of works by this author.

cited_by_count: Option<i64>

Total number of citations received by this author’s works.

summary_stats: Option<SummaryStats>

Impact metrics: h-index, i10-index, and 2-year mean citedness.

ids: Option<AuthorIds>

External identifiers (OpenAlex, ORCID, Scopus).

affiliations: Option<Vec<Affiliation>>

Institutional affiliations over time. Each entry links an institution to the years the author was affiliated.

last_known_institutions: Option<Vec<DehydratedInstitution>>

Most recently known institutional affiliation(s).

topics: Option<Vec<TopicWithScore>>

Top research topics for this author, ranked by relevance or work count.

topic_share: Option<Vec<TopicShare>>

Research topics as a share of this author’s total works.

x_concepts: Option<Vec<Concept>>

Deprecated concept tags (replaced by topics). Prefixed with x_ to indicate deprecation.

counts_by_year: Option<Vec<CountsByYear>>

Publication and citation counts broken down by year.

works_api_url: Option<String>

API URL to retrieve this author’s works (e.g. "https://api.openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023888391").

updated_date: Option<String>

ISO 8601 timestamp of the last update to this record.

created_date: Option<String>

ISO 8601 date when this record was first created.

Trait Implementations

impl Clone for Author

fn clone(&self) -> Author

Returns a duplicate of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl Debug for Author

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result<(), Error>

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl<'de> Deserialize<'de> for Author

fn deserialize<__D>( __deserializer: __D, ) -> Result<Author, <__D as Deserializer<'de>>::Error>

where __D: Deserializer<'de>,

Deserialize this value from the given Serde deserializer.

impl From<Author> for AuthorSummary

fn from(a: Author) -> Self

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl Serialize for Author

fn serialize<__S>( &self, __serializer: __S, ) -> Result<<__S as Serializer>::Ok, <__S as Serializer>::Error>

where __S: Serializer,

Serialize this value into the given Serde serializer.