Dimensions Author Check API

Embed research integrity insights into your workflow

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Dimensions Author Check API delivers fast, comprehensive research integrity insights directly into your existing systems – helping your team make confident, consistent decisions about authors, reviewers, and editors at scale.

Support responsible publishing with scalable integrity checks

Powered by the most comprehensive research integrity dataset available, the API surfaces key information on researcher publication histories and collaboration patterns, within your in-house systems or third-party submission platforms.

Ideal for reviewing authors, editors, and reviewers at scale, the Author Check API brings speed, transparency, and trust to your publishing process.

Lighten editorial workloads and support informed decisions

Reduce the time and effort required to assess research integrity, helping editorial and integrity teams make well-informed decisions more efficiently and consistently.

The Author Check API flags potential risks when and where it’s needed, including:

• Retracted publications and expressions of concern
• Known tortured phrases in prior publications
• Atypical collaboration networks or co-author patterns
• Co-authors with flagged publications
  

Access the most comprehensive research integrity dataset available

Trusted by leading publishers worldwide

Supports responsible publishing and transparency – at scale

• RESTful API built for easy integration
  A simple, standards-based REST API designed for seamless use within internal tools or third-party manuscript submission platforms.
• Batch researcher checks for improved efficiency
  Submit data for up to 20 authors per request – ideal for handling manuscripts with multiple contributors.
• Concise integrity insights for each author group
  Structured summaries highlighting key aspects of each researchers’ publication and collaboration history, including co-authors, publisher notices, and relevant integrity indicators.
• Optimized for performance and reliability
  Designed for high availability and performance, ensuring uninterrupted checks as part of existing publishing workflows.

The API draws upon a number of data points, including:

• Name, institution, ORCID, main field of research, years publishing
• Grants awarded and main funder
• Percentile of publication output
• Flagged papers: publications with updates that may be important to know about, including retracted papers, publications with expressions of concern, and papers flagged by the Problematic Paper Screener as containing known tortured phrases
• Network flag – detecting atypical co-authorship patterns
• Co-authors with flagged publications

 A powerful companion to the API

The Dimensions Author Check dashboard, available via our web app, gives integrity teams a clear view of the same trusted insights delivered by the API – ideal for deeper investigations and ongoing monitoring.