Searching by institution

[Kathryn Knight]

Hello, 

I'm having trouble searching for registered ORCID numbers/names by my institution. I've followed the API instructions for doing this to the letter, but I'm suspicious of the results I'm getting. 

These are the instructions I've used: https://members.orcid.org/finding-orcid-record-holders-your-institution

And, here's the CURL I've constructed (the number is Oak Ridge National Lab's Ringgold ID): 

curl -H "Accept: application/orcid+json" http://pub.orcid.org/v1.2/search/orcid-bio/?q=6146+AND+"Oak+Ridge" 

After I run this, the "num-found" field indicates 359 results. But when I send the JSON to a file, I'm only able to see 10 names...and one of those names isn't my own (I've got an ORCID ID, my profile is public, and ORNL is listed on my ORCID profile as my current place of employment). 

Has anything changed with the API? Any other ideas as to what might be going on?

--Katie

[kel...@iastate.edu]

Hi Katie,

I've been running similar queries here at Iowa State, and I think the default number of records returned at a time must only be ten, regardless of the number of results your query produces.  I've gotten around this by specifying the number of records to return in my API query. Here's an example:

?q=1177+AND+"iowa+state+university"&start=0&rows=900

I've been testing my queries using the Google OAuth sandbox, and sometimes things time out before it returns all those records as XML, so if you include the start parameter, you can collect the first 200, then run another query to pull the next, and so on using a loop.  Ex:
?q=1177+AND+"iowa+state+university"&start=0&rows=200
?q=1177+AND+"iowa+state+university"&start=200&rows=200
?q=1177+AND+"iowa+state+university"&start=400&rows=200
etc.

I hope this helps!
Kelly

Kelly J Thompson, MLIS

(pronouns: she, her, hers)

Metadata Management and Cataloging Librarian

Iowa State University Library

kel...@iastate.edu  

ORCID: 0000-0002-3812-8910

[Kathryn Knight]

Hi Kelly, 

That helps TREMENDOUSLY! And clears up my problem--I thought I was going crazy. 

Thank you so much,

-Katie

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[Allan Barclay]

Hey Kelly,

Thanks - that's something I was having trouble with too...

Take care,

Allan

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[David Crocker]

It would be great if this information were added back into the original documentation!  I spent hours scratching my head to get a search to work for my institution and got a small list of inconclusive results until I searched and found this post.  This information is VERY valuable.

Thanks!!!

[kel...@iastate.edu]

Thanks, David!
I'm not sure of the process for adding this to the original docs, but I am working on writing up a little piece on how I've been doing ORCID adoption benchmarking here at Iowa State, so I'll be sure to post to the list when I've found a home for it!
Thanks,
Kelly