Indonesia Researcher Index Scraper (SINTA)

Extract researcher and institution records from SINTA — Indonesia's national Science and Technology Index, run by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology. No account, login, or API key needed.

Why use this actor

• 335,000+ researchers and 5,500+ institutions in one structured dataset
• The national scores you cannot get anywhere else — SINTA Score Overall and 3-year, plus each researcher's affiliation score. These are Indonesia's own ranking metrics, not derived from Google Scholar
• Three citation sources side by side — Scopus, Google Scholar and Web of Science article counts, citations, cited documents, H-index, i10-index and G-index on a single record
• Joinable identifiers — every researcher carries a SINTA ID, their affiliation ID, and their Google Scholar user ID, so records link cleanly to Scholar and to institution records
• Affiliation and department attached to each researcher — useful for university benchmarking, recruitment and research-collaboration mapping
• Honest counters — every record reports how many records exist upstream for your scope, so you always know what a capped run left behind
• Stable JSON output with automatic retries — no scrapers or browsers to babysit

How it works

Pick a mode:

1. authors — walk or search the national researcher index (ranked by SINTA score). Turn on enrichProfiles to also fetch each researcher's full profile.
2. author — a full researcher profile by SINTA ID, including the complete publication-metrics table.
3. affiliations — the institution index with aggregate scores.

Input

Search researchers by name:

{
  "mode": "authors",
  "query": "zainul",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Top 500 researchers nationally, with full metrics:

{
  "mode": "authors",
  "maxItems": 500,
  "enrichProfiles": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 4
}

One researcher:

{
  "mode": "author",
  "sintaId": "5980682"
}

Field	Type	Description
mode	string	authors, author, or affiliations.
query	string	authors: free-text name search. Blank walks the whole index.
enrichProfiles	boolean	Also fetch each listed researcher's full profile.
sintaId / sintaIds	string / array	author mode: numeric ID or profile address.
maxItems	integer	Records to collect (10 per page, followed automatically).
maxConcurrency	integer	Profiles fetched in parallel (default 4).
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy settings; Residential on by default.

Output

authors mode — real output:

{
  "_input": "authors:*",
  "_source": "S1-html",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-09-08T07:03:51Z",
  "recordType": "AUTHOR_CARD",
  "sintaId": "5980682",
  "name": "RAHADIAN ZAINUL",
  "profileUrl": "https://sinta.kemdiktisaintek.go.id/authors/profile/5980682",
  "googleScholarId": "1sohgHgAAAAJ",
  "affiliation": "Universitas Negeri Padang",
  "affiliationId": "497",
  "department": "Pendidikan Kimia (S2)",
  "subjects": ["Chemistry", "Bioinformatics", "Computational Chemistry", "Information Technology", "Technology in Education"],
  "sintaScoreOverall": 12748,
  "sintaScore3Yr": 2716,
  "scopusHIndex": 26,
  "wosHIndex": 13,
  "googleHIndex": 0,
  "_totalRecordsAvailable": 335592
}

author mode — real output, publication table truncated:

{
  "recordType": "AUTHOR_PROFILE",
  "sintaId": "5980682",
  "name": "RAHADIAN ZAINUL",
  "affiliation": "Universitas Negeri Padang",
  "department": "S2 - Pendidikan Kimia",
  "sintaScoreOverall": 12748,
  "sintaScore3Yr": 2716,
  "affilScore": 16008,
  "affilScore3Yr": 3942,
  "publications": {
    "Scopus Article": 256,
    "Scopus Citation": 2505,
    "Scopus Cited Document": 223,
    "Scopus H-Index": 26,
    "Scopus i10-Index": 77,
    "WOS Article": 104,
    "WOS Citation": 661,
    "WOS H-Index": 13,
    "GScholar Article": 0
  }
}

affiliations mode — real output:

{
  "recordType": "AFFILIATION",
  "affiliationId": "380",
  "name": "Universitas Airlangga",
  "profileUrl": "https://sinta.kemdiktisaintek.go.id/affiliations/profile/380",
  "sintaScoreOverall": 3624707,
  "sintaScore3Yr": 1334044,
  "metaText": "Universitas Airlangga UNAIR KOTA SURABAYA - JAWA TIMUR, ID ID : 380 | CODE : 001004 194 Department 2,240 Authors",
  "_totalRecordsAvailable": 5567
}

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	AUTHOR_CARD, AUTHOR_PROFILE, or AFFILIATION.
sintaId	string	National researcher ID.
name	string	Researcher or institution name.
googleScholarId	string	Google Scholar user ID — join key to Scholar.
affiliation / affiliationId / department	string	Institution, its ID, and department.
subjects	array	Declared subject areas.
sintaScoreOverall / sintaScore3Yr	integer	National scores.
affilScore / affilScore3Yr	integer	Contribution to the institution's score.
scopusHIndex / wosHIndex / googleHIndex	integer	H-index per source (listing rows).
publications	object	Full metrics table per source (profile records).
metaText	string	Institution abbreviation, location, code, department and author counts.
_totalRecordsAvailable	integer	How many records exist upstream for this scope.
_error / _errorDetail	string	Present only on failures.

Notes & limits

• Numbers use Indonesian formatting upstream (12.748 means 12,748). They are converted to real integers in the output, so sintaScoreOverall is 12748 — no silent decimal mangling.
• Listing pages hold 10 records. Walking the full index means 33,560 pages, so set maxItems deliberately; the run always reports the true upstream total.
• The site's own sort control does not work over a plain request, so it is not offered as an input rather than shipped as a knob that quietly does nothing. The default order is by SINTA Score 3Yr.
• Google Scholar H-index is often 0 for researchers whose Scholar profile is not linked; Scopus figures are the more complete series.
• All data is published openly by the ministry for public consultation.