Given a DOI, how can I programmatically obtain all the author affiliations?

https://github.com/pybliometrics-dev/pybliometrics The example on the github page is quite close to what you want to do.

First of all, the main sources of citation data are:

• Proprietary data sources:
  • Google Scholar
  • Scopus
  • Web of Science (WoS)
• Open access data:
  • Crossref
  • MEDLINE (focusing on medical papers)

Some papers compare the comprehensiveness between these different sources, e.g. see {1,2}.

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To extract the author affiliations given a DOI, a few options (search for "affiliations" on the links below) :

1. https://support.datacite.org/docs/api-get-doi
2. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/licensee/elements_descriptions.html (MEDLINE database https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/medline.html)
3. https://github.com/CrossRef/rest-api-doc suggested by Anyon.

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For option 3 (CrossRef API), one can use the https://github.com/CrossRef/rest-api-doc API via the Python library https://gitlab.com/crossref/crossref_commons_py:

# If testing in Docker
docker run --interactive --tty ubuntu:18.04 bash
apt update; apt install -y git nano wget htop python3 python3-pip unzip

# Requirements
pip3 install crossref-commons

# Python code
import crossref_commons.retrieval
crossref_commons.retrieval.get_publication_as_json('10.5621/sciefictstud.40.2.0382')  # affiliations are empty
crossref_commons.retrieval.get_publication_as_json('10.1148/radiol.2018180887')       # affiliations are present

though it seems that quite often authors have no affiliations on CrossRef.

My guess is that MEDLINE (option 2) has more thorough metainformation (I based my guess given the information I see on the PubMed website, which relies on MEDLINE database, e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6936069/ has author affiliations, but not crossref_commons.retrieval.get_publication_as_json('10.1186/s12920-019-0598-0'), even though 10.1186/s12920-019-0598-0 = PMC6936069. Anyon's comment also questions CrossRef's comprehensiveness for the author affiliations field). The MEDLINE database can either be downloaded or accessed via API (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/develop/api/). See https://stackoverflow.com/a/62974197/395857 on how to access the MEDLINE database in Python.

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If one cannot find the affiliation in the metainformation and if the PDF can be obtained from the DOI, one could use PDF-to-text extraction programs for scientific papers, such as:

• https://github.com/kermitt2/grobid (has the ability to parse affiliation and address blocks)
• https://github.com/allenai/science-parse
• https://github.com/allenai/spv2

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To test pybliometrics that BND refers to in their answer:

# If testing in Docker
docker run --interactive --tty ubuntu:18.04 bash
apt update; apt install -y git nano wget htop python3 python3-pip unzip

# Install and configure pybliometrics
pip3 install pybliometrics
from pybliometrics.scopus.utils import config
config['Authentication']['APIKey'] = '' # Enter Elsevier API key obtained on http//dev.elsevier.com/myapikey.html

# Retrieve author affiliations
from pybliometrics.scopus import AbstractRetrieval
ab = AbstractRetrieval("10.1016/j.softx.2019.100263")
from pybliometrics.scopus import AuthorRetrieval
au1 = AuthorRetrieval(ab.authors[0].auid)
print(au1.affiliation_current)

Unfortunately pybliometrics relies on Elsevier Scopus's API, which isn't free: some institutions have subscribed to it, but fewer and fewer are willing to feed the Elsevier sharks.

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References:

• {1} Harzing, Anne-Wil, and Satu Alakangas. "Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science: a longitudinal and cross-disciplinary comparison." Scientometrics 106, no. 2 (2016): 787-804. https://web.archive.org/web/20170922223941/http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/18511/1/gsscowos.pdf
• {2} Van Eck, Nees Jan, Ludo Waltman, Vincent Larivière, and Cassidy Sugimoto. "Crossref as a new source of citation data: A comparison with Web of Science and Scopus." A blog post in the website of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, URL: https://www.cwts.nl/blog (2018). https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-r2s234 (mirror)