ORCID Public API bug? searching for "Gabriel Abraham Frank" and getting "Sarah Wigley"

[Tal Zohar]

Hello all!

When searching for string "Gabriel AND Abraham AND Frank" in ORCID API with URL:

https://pub.orcid.org/v2.0/search?q=Gabriel+AND+Abraham+AND+Frank

We get the following XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<search:search num-found="1" xmlns:search="http://www.orcid.org/ns/search" xmlns:common="http://www.orcid.org/ns/common">

    <search:result>

        <common:orcid-identifier>

            <common:uri>http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6386-9107</common:uri>

            <common:path>0000-0001-6386-9107</common:path>

            <common:host>orcid.org</common:host>

        </common:orcid-identifier>

    </search:result>

</search:search>

Going to the link in the <common:uri> leads to a whole different profile for "Sarah Wigley" - very different than what we have searched for...

Am I doing something wrong?

[Liz Krznarich]

Hi Tal,

Your example query searches indexed fields on users’ entire records (not just name fields). To search just names, use a fielded search, like:

https://pub.orcid.org/v2.0/search?q=family-names:Gabriel+AND+given-names:Frank

The full list of available fields is at https://members.orcid.org/api/tutorial/search-orcid-registry

Hope this helps! Let us know if you have more questions.

Cheers,

Liz

Liz Krznarich

Tech Lead, Front End Development, ORCID

e.krz...@orcid.org

skype: lizkrznarich

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6622-4910

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[Tal Zohar]

Hi Liz

Thank you for your quick response. I will try to work with the correct syntax as you advice me.

Best,

Tal