/v1/researcher
A researcher's public profile
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curl "https://api.oanor.com/orcid-api/v1/researcher" \ -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/orcid-api/v1/researcher", {
headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/orcid-api/v1/researcher");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
"https://api.oanor.com/orcid-api/v1/researcher",
headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)
Example response
A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.
{
"data": {
"researcher": {
"name": "Josiah Carberry",
"orcid": "0000-0002-1825-0097",
"keywords": [
"psychoceramics",
"ionian philology"
],
"websites": [
{
"url": "http://library.brown.edu/about/hay/carberry.php",
"name": "Brown University Page"
},
{
"url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Carberry",
"name": "Wikipedia Entry"
}
],
"biography": "Josiah Carberry is a fictitious person. This account is used as a demonstration account by ORCID, CrossRef and others who wish to demonstrate the interaction of ORCID with other scholarly communication systems without having to use a real-person's account.\r\n\r\nJosiah Stinkney Carberry is a fictional professor, created as a joke in 1929. He is said to still teach at Brown University, and to be known for his work in \"psychoceramics\", the supposed study of \"cracked pots\". See his Wikipedia entry for more details.",
"countries": [],
"credit_name": null,
"other_names": [
"Josiah Stinkney Carberry",
"J. Carberry",
"J. S. Carberry"
],
"external_ids": [
{
"type": "Scopus Author ID",
"value": "7007156898"
}
]
}
},
"meta": {
"timestamp": "2026-06-01T08:13:20.952Z",
"request_id": "8acbbfb0-349c-4e20-b3ae-c774d611f916"
},
"status": "ok",
"message": "Researcher retrieved",
"success": true
}