# Research Institution Profile Lookup

> Research Institution Profile Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from research-papers.x402tookit.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-27).

Returns a comprehensive academic profile for a named research institution, including type, country, publication count, citation count, h-index, and top research topics.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://research-papers.x402tookit.com/institution-profile?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-27
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/research-institution-profile-lookup-145aeb9e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_wnjAf86AwRlr7wYUkunoy

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 research-institution-profile-lookup-145aeb9e
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the research institution profile for the University of Oxford — I want to know its type, country, h-index, total citations, and what its top research topics are?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a quick, structured academic profile for a research institution by name, including bibliometric indicators like h-index and citation counts sourced from OpenAlex. Prefer this over general web search when you need structured, machine-readable data with ROR identifiers and topic breakdowns rather than free-text descriptions. Best suited for agent workflows that need to enrich institution records, assess research output, or disambiguate institutional affiliations.

## Known failure modes

- Institution name too ambiguous — returns otherMatches list with disambiguation needed
- Institution not found in OpenAlex — returns null fields with a no-match verdict
- Name misspelling or abbreviation unrecognized — low match confidence or wrong institution returned
- Partial data availability — degraded flag set to true with missing fields null
- Network timeout or upstream OpenAlex API failure — service unavailable response

## How this service works

Research institution profile by name: type, country, works, citations, h-index and top research topics.

## Output

Returns a structured profile for the best-matching institution, including its OpenAlex/ROR identifier, institution type (e.g. education, government), country, total works, total citations, h-index, two-year mean citedness, top research topics, a summary, homepage URL, source URL, match confidence, and optional disambiguation fields like other possible matches and reasons for the verdict. May include a degraded flag if data is partial.

## 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"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "name"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "name": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Institution name, e.g. MIT or University of Oxford"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "id": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "ror": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "asOf": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "type": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "match": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "works": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "number"
       ]
      },
      "hIndex": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "number"
       ]
      },
      "source": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "country": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "reasons": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ],
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      },
      "summary": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "verdict": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "degraded": {
       "type": [
        "boolean",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "homepage": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "citations": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "number"
       ]
      },
      "sourceUrl": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "topTopics": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ],
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      },
      "disclaimer": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
      
… (truncated)
```

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