# OpenAlex Researcher & Scientist Profile Lookup

> 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.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://research.memoryapi.org/x402/research/authors
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/research-memoryapi-org-6211942a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_AyJXYccvaWkf3YkY4oDo8

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-memoryapi-org-6211942a
```

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?

## When to prefer this

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.

## Known failure modes

- 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

## 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 request

```json
{
 "input": {
  "method": "GET"
 }
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "required": [
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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