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OpenAlex Researcher & Scientist Profile Lookup
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OpenAlex Researcher & Scientist Profile Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from research.memoryapi.org, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Look up researcher and scientist profiles from OpenAlex, filterable by name and institution.
Price / call$0.005
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Look up researcher and scientist profiles from OpenAlex. Filter by name and institution.
Output
Returns one or more researcher/scientist profiles from OpenAlex, including author name, institutional affiliation, publication count, citation metrics, and unique author identifiers.
Example use cases
Example prompt
“Can you look up the OpenAlex researcher profile for 'Yoshua Bengio' at the University of Montreal and give me his affiliation, citation count, and works?”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://research.memoryapi.org/x402/research/authorsWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need to identify or profile a specific academic researcher or scientist, especially when filtering by name and/or institution. Prefer this over a general scholarly works search when the goal is author-centric information (affiliation, citation count, author ID) rather than paper discovery.
Side effects
- No matching researcher found for the given name and institution combination
- Ambiguous name returns multiple profiles requiring further filtering
- Institution name not recognized or misspelled causing empty results
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance returns 402 error
- Rate limiting or quota exceeded returns error response
Input
{
"input": {
"method": "GET"
}
}Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| input | — |
Output
{
"count": 5,
"query": "Jennifer Doudna",
"source": "OpenAlex",
"authors": [
{
"id": "https://openalex.org/A5067184382",
"url": "https://openalex.org/A5067184382",
"name": "Jennifer A. Doudna",
"orcid": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9161-999X",
"h_index": 150,
"top_topics": [
"Biology",
"RNA",
"Computational biology"
],
"institution": "QB3",
"works_count": 667,
"cited_by_count": 118652,
"institution_country": "US"
},
{
"id": "https://openalex.org/A5084352079",
"url": "https://openalex.org/A5084352079",
"name": "Oscar Negrete",
"orcid": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8281-4777",
"h_index": 20,
"top_topics": [
"Biology",
"Computer science",
"Virology"
],
"institution": "Sandia National Laboratories California",
"works_count": 67,
"cited_by_count": 2803,
"institution_country": "US"
},
{
"id": "https://openalex.org/A5085248150",
"url": "https://openalex.org/A5085248150",
"name": "Elizabeth C. Stahl",
"orcid": "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0111-6315",
"h_index": 23,
"top_topics": [
"Biology",
"Medicine",
"Gene"
],
"institution": "University Medical Center Freiburg",
"works_count": 55,
"cited_by_count": 2093,
"institution_country": "DE"
},
{
"id": "https://openalex.org/A5130091406",
"url": "https://openalex.org/A5130091406",
"name": "Jennifer A. Doudna",
"orcid": null,
"h_index": 1,
"top_topics": [
"Transgene",
"Gene delivery",
"Genetic enhancement"
],
"institution": "QB3",
"works_count": 1,
"cited_by_count": 10,
"institution_country": "US"
},
{
"id": "https://openalex.org/A5128756606",
"url": "https://openalex.org/A5128756606",
"name": "Jennifer A. Doudna",
"orcid": null,
"h_index": 1,
"top_topics": [
"Genome",
"Genome editing",
"Gene"
],
"institution": "QB3",
"works_count": 1,
"cited_by_count": 2,
"institution_country": "US"
}
],
"success": true
}Tags
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