I'm trying to get the authors of a publication by using scopus. For that I got an API key and startet. I searched for the DOI and got a response. Everything is fine, there is also an entry "authors", but for each request this field is simply empty. My code in python is below:
import pyscopus
key = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
doi = '10.1016/0270-0255(87)90003-0'
scopus = pyscopus.Scopus(key)
response_json = json.loads(scopus.search(f'doi({doi})', view='STANDARD').to_json(orient="records"))
So a s I sayed, you can call response_json['authors'] but it is always empty. There are authors given on the website, but webscraping is forbidden. Am I doing something wrong or do they simply not provide these information (which is confusing, since there is a field)? So far I couldn't find an answer.
I know there are other ways like crossref to get these information, but for reasons I want to do it with scopus.
Thanks!
