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Changelog

API Version Schema Versions Date Released Notes
2.13.0 - Scholar: 1.6.6
- Patent: 1.6.2		 Sep 25, 2024 - Added biblio.parties.inventors.orcid to the patent response fields.
- Added invetor.orcid, reference_cited.npl.category and reference_cited.npl.cited_phase to the supported patent request fields.
- Added references_count, references_resolved_count and references.text to the scholar response fields.
- Added retraction_update.date, retraction_update.nature and retraction_update.reason to the scholar request fields.
- Updated the API data schema endpoints.
2.12.0 - Scholar: 1.6.5
- Patent: 1.6.1		 Jul 08, 2024 - Added support for MONTH interval in the date histogram aggregation.
- Added legal_status.term_extension_days to the supported patent request fields.
2.11.0 - Scholar: 1.6.5
- Patent: 1.6.0		 Oct 25, 2023 - Released the Aggregation API out of beta.
- Added Aggregation API endpoints to Swagger UI.
2.10.0 - Scholar: 1.6.5
- Patent: 1.6.0		 Aug 2, 2023 - Added and improved API error and validation messages.
- Increased the size of result sets that are supported by offset/size based pagination to 10,000 results.
- Released the beta Aggregation API.
2.9.0 - Scholar: 1.6.5
- Patent: 1.6.0		 May 17, 2023 - Added authors.affiliations.name_original to the scholar API.
- Added support for min_score in the request body.
- Added max_score to the API response.
2.8.0 - Scholar: 1.6.4
- Patent: 1.6.0		 Feb 20, 2023 - Added group_by to the patent API to support group by patent family queries.
2.5.3 - Scholar: 1.6.3
- Patent: 1.4.0		 Sep 12, 2022 - Added scholarly request fields: has_affiliation_ror
- Added query parser to normalise string based queries.
2.5.0 - Scholar: 1.6.2
- Patent: 1.4.0		 Jun 9, 2022 - Added scholarly request fields: ids.doi, ids.pmid, ids.pmcid, ids.magid, ids.coreid and ids.openalex
- Added data schema endpoints.
2.4.0 - Scholar: 1.6.1
- Patent: 1.3.1		 Feb 15, 2022 - Added scholarly request fields: author.affiliation.ror_id, author.affiliation.name_original, source.is_diamond, author.affiliation.address.city, author.affiliation.address.state_code, author.affiliation.address.country_code, author.affiliation.type, has_affiliation_ror
- Added scholarly response field: authors.affiliations.ids
- Added maxResultPerPage subscription plan parameter to the API usage endpoints
2.2.2 - Scholar: 1.5.2
- Patent: 1.2.7		 Jun 29, 2021 - Added Patent response fields biblio.parties.examiners
- Added patent request fields has_examiner - Added language support in request
- Added scholarly search fields reference.lens_id, in_analytics_set
2.1.1 - Scholar: 1.5.0
- Patent: 1.2.5		 May 19, 2021 - Added Patent response fields biblio.references_cited.citations.cited_phase, biblio.references_cited.patent_count
- Added patent request fields earliest_priority_claim_date, sequence.organism.tax_id, sequence.organism.name, sequence.organism.name.exact
- Added scholarly fields source.issn.type, date_published_parts
2.1.0 - Scholar: 1.5.0
- Patent: 1.1.0		 February 22, 2021 - Added Scholarly GET endpoint for retrieving scholarly works by Lens_id
- Added has_inpadoc, created and earliest_priority_date to the Patent request fields
- Expanded the coverage of the default search field for string based queries
- Performance improvements for Scholarly endpoints
2.0.0 - Scholar: 1.4.0
- Patent: 1.0.0		 December 16, 2020 - Added Patent API endpoints
- Added support for un-stemmed search
1.3.2 Scholar: 1.3.2 March 25, 2020 - Added keyword fields author.affiliation.name.exact, source.title.exact, funding.organisation.exact for search request
1.3.0 Scholar: 1.3.0 March 5, 2020 - Added GET endpoints for Scholarly Search and Collections
- Added author identifier fields (MAG, ORCID)
- See Lens Release 6.7 notes for details
1.2.0 Scholar: 1.2.0 September 9, 2019 - Added Lens partner option
- Bug fixes
- Performance improvements
- See Lens Release 6.4 notes for details
1.1.0 Scholar: 1.1.0 July 22, 2019 - Added the ability to search within a scholarly collection (user feedback)
- Bug fixes
1.0.0 Scholar: 1.0.0 June 27, 2019 - API to access the full corpus of Scholarly works
beta Scholar: beta April 29, 2019