It's easy to get an institution from from the API with:/institutions/<entity_id>. Here's an example:

• Get the institution with theOpenAlex IDI27837315:https://api.openalex.org/institutions/I27837315

That will return anInstitution object, describing everything OpenAlex knows about the institution with that ID:

{"id":"https://openalex.org/I27837315","ror":"https://ror.org/00jmfr291","display_name":"University of Michigan–Ann Arbor","country_code":"US","type":"education",// other fields removed for brevity}

External IDs

You can look up institutions using external IDs such as aROR ID:

• Get the institution with ROR IDhttps://ror.org/00cvxb145:https://api.openalex.org/institutions/ror:https://ror.org/00cvxb145

Available external IDs for institutions are:

Select fields

You can useselect to limit the fields that are returned in an institution object. More details arehere.

• Display only theid anddisplay_name for an institution objecthttps://api.openalex.org/institutions/I27837315?select=id,display_name

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