I've been doing a lot of work lately with EuropePMC's API -
http://europepmc.org/RestfulWebService
It's been super useful for my purposes, though I've been searching based on
article DOIs, not on authors. You might need to do a bit more parsing of
the results to make sure you don't have false hits with author names.

-Christine Mayo

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Jason Bengtson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> The National Library of Medicine has some great apis for use with PubMed
> and their other databases. That's only health science, but it's a good
> start. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/api/
>
> Best regards,
> *Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA*
> Innovation Architect
>
>
> *Houston Academy of MedicineThe Texas Medical Center Library*
> 1133 John Freeman Blvd
> Houston, TX   77030
> http://library.tmc.edu/
> www.jasonbengtson.com
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Pikas, Christina K. <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > The Scopus API: http://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> > Alex Armstrong
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:59 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
> >
> > Hi list,
> >
> > What are some good API options for retrieving a list of scholarly
> > publications by author?
> >
> > I would like to be able to grab them and display them on a website along
> > with other information about each author.
> >
> > Google Scholar does not have a public API as far as I can tell.
> >
> > CrossRef metadata search does not allow to search by author.
> >
> > Orcid seems promising. I would have to ask the users I have in mind to
> add
> > or import their publications to Orcid, as most of them are not on there
> > already. That's doable, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do what I
> > described above with their public (as opposed to their member) API.
> >
> > Any other ideas or thoughts?
> >
> > Best,
> > Alex Armstrong
> >
>