# Scholar Author Disambiguator

> Scholar Author Disambiguator is a paid API for AI agents from api.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.015/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Disambiguates a researcher by name or ORCID and returns their profile including works count, citation count, h-index, institutional affiliations with ROR IDs, top concepts, and top works.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.agentstools.dev/scholar/author?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.015/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/scholar-author-disambiguator-0366b97d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_EnhG0CDhTIJp5qDM0UmHL

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 scholar-author-disambiguator-0366b97d
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the academic profile for Jennifer Doudna — I want her h-index, citation count, institution with ROR ID, and top research concepts? Use her ORCID 0000-0001-9584-5012 so you get the right person.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to resolve a specific researcher's scholarly identity and retrieve their bibliometric profile (h-index, citation count, works), especially when disambiguation is needed. Prefer the ORCID input path when identity certainty is required. Use the name+institution path when only a name is known. Prefer this over a general scholarly search endpoint when the goal is profiling a person rather than finding papers on a topic.

## Known failure modes

- Name query returns multiple candidates requiring disambiguation — agent must choose or refine with institution parameter
- ORCID not found returns empty or 404 response
- Ambiguous name with no institution hint returns ranked candidates that may not include the intended person
- Limit parameter exceeds 25 returns validation error
- Missing both name and orcid query parameters returns a 400 bad request

## How this service works

Disambiguate a researcher and return their profile: works count, citation count, h-index, institutions with ROR, top concepts and top works. Give an orcid for a resolved profile, or a name for ranked candidates. Distinct people are never merged.

## Output

Returns a resolved author profile containing total works count, total citation count, h-index, affiliated institutions with ROR identifiers, a ranked list of top research concepts with scores, and a list of top cited works with metadata. For name-based queries, returns a ranked list of candidate author profiles for disambiguation.

## 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",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "name": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Author name for ranked candidate profiles"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 25,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Max candidates for a name search, default 10"
      },
      "orcid": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "ORCID id for a single resolved author profile"
      },
      "institution": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional institution name to narrow a name search"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/scholar-author-disambiguator-0366b97d/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.agentstools.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.agentstools.dev/llms.txt)