Missing author info in some work records

[Sol Lederman]

If you look at https://api.openalex.org/works/W4225658311 as one example you'll see that the author block is empty. In particular, there's no author id.

"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{}, ...]

There are more of these kinds of records. I can generate a list if that would be useful.

Sol

[Matthew VanEseltine]

Oddly enough, in your example, the lack of author info seems to be a faithful representation of the source (url) -- where they're also missing author names:

Looking around that site, a link takes us to a more informative page, which does include the DOI -- but it doesn't look like more information than this page was actually found prior to building the OpenAlex record.

Matt

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[Sol Lederman]

You make a good point. I thought it was odd that there'd be an empty author block but there is institution info for the authors of this work.