# CitePulse Institution Research-Output Benchmark

> CitePulse Institution Research-Output Benchmark is a paid API for AI agents from citepulse.theaslangroupllc.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns works count, total citations, h-index, i10-index, a 10-year output/citation trend, and topic-strength breakdown for one or two institutions, sourced from OpenAlex.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://citepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/institution
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/citepulse-institution-research-output-benchmark-fd7a4a90
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_9ZyPe_WPFi5aFMcJPfdIz

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability citepulse-institution-research-output-benchmark-fd7a4a90
```

Example prompt: Pull up the full research benchmark for MIT and Stanford side by side — I need their works count, total citations, h-index, i10-index, the 10-year output and citation trends, and which research topics each institution is strongest in.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need institutional-level bibliometric benchmarking — especially for grant office due diligence, research strategy comparisons, or ranking exercises. It is the right choice over author-level or paper-level endpoints when the unit of analysis is an entire institution. For side-by-side institutional comparison in a single call, this is the only CitePulse endpoint that supports dual-institution queries.

## Known failure modes

- Institution not found in OpenAlex — returns error or empty result
- Ambiguous institution name with multiple matches — may return wrong institution
- OpenAlex data lag — recent publications may not yet be indexed
- Rate limit or payment failure — returns 402 or 429 status
- Malformed institution identifier — returns 400 bad request

## How this service works

Institution research-output benchmark for grant offices, research-strategy agents, and comparison shopping — works count, total citations, h-index/i10-index, a 10-year output/citation trend, and topic-strength breakdown (OpenAlex). Optionally benchmark two institutions side by side.

## Output

A structured report for one or two institutions containing: total works count, total citations, h-index, i10-index, a year-by-year 10-year output and citation trend, and a topic-strength breakdown. When two institutions are queried, results are returned side by side for direct comparison.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "name": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Institution name to search, e.g. \"Harvard University\""
      },
      "compare_to": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional second institution name — returns both records side by side for a two-way benchmark"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "errors": {
     "type": "object",
     "description": "Documented error responses, keyed by HTTP status code",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
       "description"
      ],
      "properties": {
       "example": {
        "type": "object"
       },
       "description": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      }
     }
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "name": "Harvard University",
  "h_index": 2765,
  "works_count": 703863,
  "cited_by_count": 143367630,
  "topic_strengths": [
   {
    "field": "Immunology",
    "topic": "Immune Cell Function and Interaction",
    "works_count": 9958
   }
  ],
  "citations_per_work": 203.71
 }
}
```

## More

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