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Web of Science APIs

The Web of Science APIs provide programmatic access to Clarivate's Web of Science databases, the world's leading citation index covering over 21,000 peer-reviewed journals across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The API suite includes the Starter API for basic bibliographic metadata and journal discovery, and the Expanded API for advanced search, citation tracking, related records, and bibliometric reporting with h-index and year-by-year citation analysis.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Web of Science APIs the way a machine reads it — 116 machine-readable artifacts across 6 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Web of Science APIs scores 60.3/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 60.3/100 · strong
Contract Quality 17.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Web of Science APIs

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Web of Science APIs. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 6

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Web of Science APIs citations API

The citations API from Web of Science APIs — 3 operation(s) for citations.

Web of Science APIs documents API

The documents API from Web of Science APIs — 2 operation(s) for documents.

Web of Science APIs journals API

The journals API from Web of Science APIs — 2 operation(s) for journals.

Web of Science APIs records API

The records API from Web of Science APIs — 1 operation(s) for records.

Web of Science APIs reports API

The reports API from Web of Science APIs — 2 operation(s) for reports.

Web of Science APIs search API

The search API from Web of Science APIs — 3 operation(s) for search.

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Web Of Science Apis Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 7

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Advanced Document Search

Search over 100 million records using Web of Science Advanced Query Syntax with 16 searchable field tags including topic, author, DOI, organization, and funding agency.

Citation Tracking

Track forward citations (articles citing a paper) and backward citations (reference list) to understand the full citation network of any paper.

Bibliometric Reporting

Generate citation reports with h-index, total citations, average citations per item, and year-by-year citation and publication counts.

Related Records Discovery

Find research papers related to a given article by identifying records that share cited references.

Journal Metadata

Retrieve journal information including ISSN, publisher, subject categories, and Journal Citation Reports profile URL.

Multi-Database Search

Search across 12 Web of Science databases including Core Collection, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, and Zoological Record.

Times-Cited Counts

Access real-time times-cited counts for documents across Web of Science databases for impact assessment.

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Web Of Science Context

0 classes · 113 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Web of Science APIs API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Web of Science APIs API Rules

10 rules · 1 errors · 8 warnings

SPECTRAL

Web of Science APIs API Rules

22 rules · 8 errors · 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 29

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Author

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CategoryContext

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CategoryCount

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CitationCount

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CitationReport

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DocumentIdentifiers

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DocumentKeywords

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DocumentLinks

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DocumentNames

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DocumentPages

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Document

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DocumentSource

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DocumentsSearchResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DynamicData

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FullRecordMetadata

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Journal

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JournalsSearchResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PubInfo

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QueryResult

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RecordIdsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RecordSummary

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Records

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchRequest

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StaticData

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TimeSpan

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WosRecord

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

YearCount

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 29

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Web Of Science Author Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Category Context Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Category Count Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Citation Count Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Citation Report Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Document Keywords Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Document Links Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Document Names Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Document Pages Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Document Source Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Document Structure

10 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Dynamic Data Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Error Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Journal Structure

10 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Pub Info Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Query Result Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Record Summary Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Records Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Search Request Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Search Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Static Data Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Time Span Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Wos Record Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Web Of Science Year Count Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 29

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Web Of Science Apis Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Web Of Science Apis Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Web Of Science Apis Agentic Access

14 operations · 1 acting

14 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 4

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

Literature Review Automation

Automate systematic literature review by programmatically searching and retrieving bibliographic metadata from Web of Science.

Research Impact Analysis

Analyze the impact of publications or researchers using citation counts, h-index, and bibliometric reports.

Citation Network Analysis

Build citation networks by tracing forward and backward citations to map the intellectual lineage of research topics.

Journal Selection

Identify appropriate journals for manuscript submission by searching journal metadata and impact metrics.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Web of Science APIs — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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