Publishers Overview

Schema reference for Publishers entities

Publishers are companies and organizations that distribute works. Publishers can have a hierarchical structure (parent/child relationships).

Filter, sort, and group_by fields

The API supports filtering, sorting, and grouping on publishers fields. See Filtering, Sorting, and Grouping for syntax.

Fields marked (deprecated) are .search filters — use the search parameter instead.

Field	Sort	Group_by	Filter
cited_by_count	✓	✓	✓
continent	✓	✓	✓
country_codes	✓	✓	✓
default.search (deprecated)			✓
display_name	✓		✓
display_name.search (deprecated)			✓
from_created_date	✓		✓
hierarchy_level	✓	✓	✓
ids.openalex	✓	✓	✓
ids.ror	✓	✓	✓
ids.wikidata	✓	✓	✓
lineage	✓	✓	✓
openalex		✓	✓
openalex_id	✓	✓	✓
parent_publisher	✓	✓	✓
roles.id	✓	✓	✓
ror	✓	✓	✓
summary_stats.2yr_mean_citedness	✓	✓	✓
summary_stats.h_index	✓	✓	✓
summary_stats.i10_index	✓	✓	✓
wikidata	✓	✓	✓
works_count	✓	✓	✓