Search documentation wrong

[derspotter]

Hi there,
so either I'm stupid or the documentation is wrong. Here https://docs.openalex.org/api-entities/authors/search-authors#search-authors it says:

Search authors

The best way to search for authors is to use the search query parameter, which searches the display_name and the display_name_alternatives fields. Example:

Get works with the author name "Carl Sagan":
[https://api.openalex.org/authors?search=carl sagan](https://api.openalex.org/authors?search=carl%20sagan)

But this should return Author Objects not Work objects, right? What am I missing? This is so confusing.

Thank you.
Justus