{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/clarivate/main/json-schema/clarivate-category-list-schema.json",
  "title": "CategoryList",
  "x-generated": "2026-10-12",
  "x-method": "derived",
  "x-generator": "derive-json-schema.py",
  "x-source": "openapi/clarivate-categories-api-openapi.yml#/components/schemas/CategoryList",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "metadata": {
      "$ref": "#/$defs/Metadata"
    },
    "hits": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "List of retrieved categories",
      "items": {
        "$ref": "#/$defs/CategoryListRecord"
      }
    }
  },
  "$defs": {
    "CategoryCitationReports": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "description": "List of reports available by JCR year",
        "properties": {
          "url": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "year": {
            "type": "integer",
            "format": "int32"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "CategoryListRecord": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "id": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Category unique identifier"
        },
        "self": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Link to the category entity"
        },
        "matches": {
          "type": "array",
          "description": "Search string matches across category names",
          "items": {
            "$ref": "#/$defs/SearchMatch"
          }
        },
        "name": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Category name"
        },
        "edition": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Category edition (SCIE/SSCI)"
        },
        "categoryCitationReports": {
          "$ref": "#/$defs/CategoryCitationReports"
        }
      }
    },
    "Metadata": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Information about total number of journals in the retrieve, number of recodrs on the page, and the page number.",
      "properties": {
        "total": {
          "type": "integer",
          "format": "int32",
          "description": "Total number of records for the request."
        },
        "page": {
          "type": "integer",
          "format": "int32",
          "description": "Page number (default is 1)"
        },
        "limit": {
          "type": "integer",
          "format": "int32",
          "description": "Number of records on a page (default is 10)."
        }
      }
    },
    "SearchMatch": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Displays the field and value matched to the search string",
      "properties": {
        "field": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Name of the matched field"
        },
        "value": {
          "description": "Array of matched values (if several) with the HTML highligthing",
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        }
      }
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}