Auto complete not returning sorted by citation count

[Purna Srivatsa]

Doc - https://docs.openalex.org/how-to-use-the-api/get-lists-of-entities/autocomplete-entities

Quoting the documentation - 

"Response format

Each request returns a response object with two properties:

• meta: an object with information about the request, including timing and results count

• results: a list of up to ten results for the query, sorted by citation count. Each result represents an entity that matched against the query

• "

But when i tried - 

curl "https://api.openalex.org/autocomplete/authors?q=albert%20einstein" | jq '.'

I see - 

{

  "meta": {

    "count": 82,

    "db_response_time_ms": 166,

    "page": 1,

    "per_page": 10

  },

  "results": [

    {

      "id": "https://openalex.org/A5086217005",

      "short_id": "authors/A5086217005",

      "display_name": "Albert Einstein Mathias de Medeiros Teodósio",

      "hint": "Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil",

      "cited_by_count": 58,

      "works_count": 22,

      "entity_type": "author",

      "external_id": null,

      "filter_key": "authorships.author.id"

    },

    {

      "id": "https://openalex.org/A5111921673",

      "short_id": "authors/A5111921673",

      "display_name": "Albert Einstein",

      "hint": null,

      "cited_by_count": 4138,

      "works_count": 289,

      "entity_type": "author",

      "external_id": null,

      "filter_key": "authorships.author.id"

    },

    {

      "id": "https://openalex.org/A5094077736",

      "short_id": "authors/A5094077736",

      "display_name": "Albert Einstein",

      "hint": null,

      "cited_by_count": 106,

      "works_count": 29,

      "entity_type": "author",

      "external_id": null,

      "filter_key": "authorships.author.id"

    },

    {

      "id": "https://openalex.org/A5109805546",

      "short_id": "authors/A5109805546",

      "display_name": "Albert Einstein",

      "hint": null,

      "cited_by_count": 19069,

      "works_count": 279,

      "entity_type": "author",

      "external_id": null,

      "filter_key": "authorships.author.id"

    },

    {

      "id": "https://openalex.org/A5003332123",

      "short_id": "authors/A5003332123",

      "display_name": "Albert Einstein-Str",

      "hint": null,

      "cited_by_count": 0,

      "works_count": 13,

      "entity_type": "author",

      "external_id": null,

      "filter_key": "authorships.author.id"

    },

    {

      "id": "https://openalex.org/A5055907730",

      "short_id": "authors/A5055907730",

      "display_name": "Albert Einstein Fernandes Muritiba",

      "hint": "Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil",

      "cited_by_count": 280,

      "works_count": 15,

      "entity_type": "author",

      "external_id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0528-9248",

      "filter_key": "authorships.author.id"

    },

    {

      "id": "https://openalex.org/A5096968865",

      "short_id": "authors/A5096968865",

      "display_name": "Albert-Einstein-Str.",

      "hint": null,

      "cited_by_count": 0,

      "works_count": 1,

      "entity_type": "author",

      "external_id": null,

      "filter_key": "authorships.author.id"

    },

    {

      "id": "https://openalex.org/A5063041826",

      "short_id": "authors/A5063041826",

      "display_name": "Albert Einstein Juson",

      "hint": "De La Salle University – Dasmariñas, Philippines",

      "cited_by_count": 14,

      "works_count": 3,

      "entity_type": "author",

      "external_id": null,

      "filter_key": "authorships.author.id"

    },

    {

      "id": "https://openalex.org/A2214512436",

      "short_id": "authors/A2214512436",

      "display_name": "Albert Einstein Spindola Saraiva de Moura",

      "hint": null,

      "cited_by_count": 0,

      "works_count": 1,

      "entity_type": "author",

      "external_id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2923-5028",

      "filter_key": "authorships.author.id"

    },

    {

      "id": "https://openalex.org/A5047005486",

      "short_id": "authors/A5047005486",

      "display_name": "George Albert Einstein",

      "hint": null,

      "cited_by_count": 118,

      "works_count": 3,

      "entity_type": "author",

      "external_id": null,

      "filter_key": "authorships.author.id"

    }

  ]

}

they dont seem sorted by cited_by_count

The first result has 

"cited_by_count": 58

which is not the highest .