Scopus Abstract Retrieval API
After obtaining the Scopus IDs of the articles, the next step is to use them to retrieve all the information about each article. We will use the Scopus Abstract Retrieval API, provided by Elsevier, to retrieve the Scopus abstracts with rich article metadata of all the articles.
Info
In the old version v2.0.0, we web scraped the Scopus article preview page using BeautifulSoup, but we have now abandoned this practice.
API Resource URL
We need to request the below URL and pass some parameters to get the Scopus abstract.
Scopus ID
To retrieve a Scopus abstract of a specific article, we need to set the scopus_id path parameter, which refers to a unique Scopus identifier assigned to each Scopus article/abstract.
Example with SCOPUS_ID:85197125619 as Scopus ID:
Fields
By specifying the Scopus Fields, we can filter the response and get only the desired information of the articles.
Example with all fields used:
field=dc:identifier,eid,dc:title,dc:description,prism:publicationName,citedby-count,prism:volume,prism:coverDate,prism:doi,dc:creator,authors
Request Headers
The headers include in the request. One of them specifies your API Key.
"Accept-Language": "pt-BR,pt;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.7",
"Accept-Charset": "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3",
"Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
"Referer": "https://www.scopus.com/",
"Origin": "https://www.scopus.com",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Accept": "application/json",
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0",
"Connection": "keep-alive",
"X-ELS-APIKey": "Your API Key",
Final URL
This is an example of a complete URL with all the parameters we requested.
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/SCOPUS_ID:85197125619&field=dc:identifier,eid,dc:title,dc:description,prism:publicationName,citedby-count,prism:volume,prism:coverDate,prism:doi,dc:creator,authors
Response Body
Example of a response body from the Scopus Abstract Retrieval API on an institutional network.
"abstracts-retrieval-response": {
"coredata": {
"eid": "2-s2.0-85197125619",
"citedby-count": "0",
"prism:volume": "14",
"dc:description": "The advancement of technology has significantly transformed the livestock [...]",
"prism:coverDate": "2024-06-01",
"dc:title": "Digital and Precision Technologies in Dairy Cattle Farming: A Bibliometric Analysis",
"dc:creator": {
"author": [
{
"ce:given-name": "Franck Morais",
"preferred-name": {
"ce:given-name": "Franck Morais",
"ce:initials": "F.M.",
"ce:surname": "de Oliveira",
"ce:indexed-name": "de Oliveira F.M."
},
"@seq": "1",
"ce:initials": "F.M.",
"@_fa": "true",
"affiliation": {
"@id": "60017841",
"@href": "https://api.elsevier.com/content/affiliation/affiliation_id/60017841"
},
"ce:surname": "de Oliveira",
"@auid": "57275191700",
"author-url": "https://api.elsevier.com/content/author/author_id/57275191700",
"ce:indexed-name": "de Oliveira F.M."
}
]
},
"prism:doi": "10.3390/ani14121832",
"publishercopyright": "© 2024 by the authors.",
"prism:publicationName": "Animals",
"dc:identifier": "SCOPUS_ID:85197125619"
},
"authors": {
"author": [
{
"ce:given-name": "Franck Morais",
"preferred-name": {
"ce:given-name": "Franck Morais",
"ce:initials": "F.M.",
"ce:surname": "de Oliveira",
"ce:indexed-name": "de Oliveira F.M."
},
"@seq": "1",
"ce:initials": "F.M.",
"@_fa": "true",
"affiliation": {
"@id": "60017841",
"@href": "https://api.elsevier.com/content/affiliation/affiliation_id/60017841"
},
"ce:surname": "de Oliveira",
"@auid": "57275191700",
"author-url": "https://api.elsevier.com/content/author/author_id/57275191700",
"ce:indexed-name": "de Oliveira F.M."
}
]
}
}
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
abstracts-retrieval-response |
Lists article's rich metadata |
coredata |
Lists the article's core metadata with the specified fields |
authors |
Lists all authors of the article |
author |
Lists the data of all authors of the article |
Example of a response body from the Scopus Abstract Retrieval API on an off-campus network.
"abstracts-retrieval-response": {
"coredata": {
"eid": "2-s2.0-85197125619",
"citedby-count": "0",
"prism:volume": "14",
"prism:coverDate": "2024-06-01",
"dc:title": "Digital and Precision Technologies in Dairy Cattle Farming: A Bibliometric Analysis",
"dc:creator": {
"author": [
{
"ce:given-name": "Franck Morais",
"preferred-name": {
"ce:given-name": "Franck Morais",
"ce:initials": "F.M.",
"ce:surname": "de Oliveira",
"ce:indexed-name": "de Oliveira F.M."
},
"@seq": "1",
"ce:initials": "F.M.",
"@_fa": "true",
"affiliation": {
"@id": "60017841",
"@href": "https://api.elsevier.com/content/affiliation/affiliation_id/60017841"
},
"ce:surname": "de Oliveira",
"@auid": "57275191700",
"author-url": "https://api.elsevier.com/content/author/author_id/57275191700",
"ce:indexed-name": "de Oliveira F.M."
}
]
},
"prism:doi": "10.3390/ani14121832",
"publishercopyright": "© 2024 by the authors.",
"prism:publicationName": "Animals",
"dc:identifier": "SCOPUS_ID:85197125619"
}
}
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
abstracts-retrieval-response |
Lists article's rich metadata |
coredata |
Lists the article's core metadata with the specified fields |
author |
Lists the data of the first author of the article |