Possibly the Mendeley API? http://dev.mendeley.com/getting_started/common_tasks.html

It might also make a difference to know the domain in which these authors publish. Scopus indexes primarily scientific, technical, medical content. 

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I've used the arXiv API for a similar purpose: http://arxiv.org/help/api/index. 

Margaret Heller
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Loyola University Chicago
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The Scopus API: http://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html


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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