# Research Institution Profiles Lookup (OpenAlex + HipoLabs)

> Research Institution Profiles Lookup (OpenAlex + HipoLabs) is a paid API for AI agents from research.memoryapi.org, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Look up research institution profiles by combining data from OpenAlex and HipoLabs, returning details about universities, labs, and research organizations.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://research.memoryapi.org/x402/research/institutions
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/research-memoryapi-org-8d99a98e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Shex9KSUz5b2s5_fQT2U9

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-8d99a98e
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the institution profile for MIT — I want to see their location, research output stats, and any combined OpenAlex and HipoLabs metadata you can find?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need comprehensive institution-level profiles that combine publication/citation data from OpenAlex with organizational metadata from HipoLabs. Prefer this over a plain OpenAlex works search when the subject of interest is the institution itself rather than individual papers or researchers.

## Known failure modes

- Institution not found in OpenAlex or HipoLabs — returns empty or null result
- Ambiguous institution name matching multiple records — may return wrong institution
- HipoLabs data unavailable for lesser-known institutions — partial profile returned
- Rate limiting or payment failure (x402) — 402 Payment Required response
- Invalid query parameters — 400 Bad Request

## How this service works

Look up research institution profiles combining OpenAlex and HipoLabs data.

## Output

Returns a structured profile of the requested research institution combining OpenAlex data (publication counts, citation metrics, topics) with HipoLabs data (location, country, organization details), providing a comprehensive view of the institution's academic identity and research footprint.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "q"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "q": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Search query"
  },
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 10,
   "maximum": 20,
   "description": "Number of results"
  },
  "category": {
   "enum": [
    "cs",
    "physics",
    "math",
    "q-bio",
    "stat",
    "econ"
   ],
   "type": "string",
   "description": "arXiv category filter"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "count",
  "query",
  "source",
  "success",
  "institutions"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "count": {
   "type": "number"
  },
  "query": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "source": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "success": {
   "type": "boolean"
  },
  "institutions": {
   "type": "array",
   "items": {
    "type": "object",
    "required": [
     "url",
     "name",
     "type",
     "country",
     "website",
     "top_fields",
     "works_count",
     "cited_by_count"
    ],
    "properties": {
     "url": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "name": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "type": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "country": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "website": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "top_fields": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
       "type": "unknown"
      }
     },
     "works_count": {
      "type": "number"
     },
     "cited_by_count": {
      "type": "number"
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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