# Mekong Trade Intel Academic Search

> Mekong Trade Intel Academic Search is a paid API for AI agents from api.mekongtradeintel.com, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-25).

Searches academic papers and returns abstracts, authors, and citation data for a given query string

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.mekongtradeintel.com/academic?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.004/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-25
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/mekong-trade-intel-academic-search-901a48f3
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_2bffChXa4NiZ4xQcZlLKN

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 mekong-trade-intel-academic-search-901a48f3
```

Example prompt: Can you search for academic papers on CRISPR gene editing and return up to 10 results with abstracts, authors, and citation info?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured academic paper metadata (abstracts, authors, citations) for a natural-language research query. It is well-suited for literature review tasks, fact-checking with scholarly sources, and discovering key researchers in a domain. Prefer it over general web search when you specifically need peer-reviewed or academic sources with citation metadata.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or vague query returns irrelevant or zero results
- Limit parameter out of range (must be 1–15) may cause an error or be clamped
- Query in a niche or non-English language may return sparse results
- Network timeout on complex queries
- Payment failure if insufficient USDC balance

## How this service works

Academic paper search with abstracts, authors, citations. $0.008 per call. Send {"query"}.

## Output

Returns a list of academic papers matching the query, each with title, abstract, author list, and citation data, up to the specified result limit (max 15).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "Max results (1-15)"
  },
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Search text"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/mekong-trade-intel-academic-search-901a48f3/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.mekongtradeintel.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.mekongtradeintel.com/llms.txt)