# Suverse OpenAlex Author Search

> Suverse OpenAlex Author Search is a paid API for AI agents from proxy.suverse.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Searches the OpenAlex open scholarly graph for academic authors by keyword, returning ranked matches with identifiers and metadata.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://proxy.suverse.io/v1/data/suverse-openalex-authors
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/suverse-openalex-author-search-e1f6fe53
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_YKk1_KzOyiAYkuV02AnWP

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 suverse-openalex-author-search-e1f6fe53 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search OpenAlex for academic authors related to 'transformer neural networks' and give me their names, author IDs, and metadata so I can start a literature review.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to search for academic authors by keyword or name using the OpenAlex open scholarly graph without requiring an API key. It is ideal for literature review workflows, citation analysis, and research enrichment pipelines where author identifiers and metadata are needed. Prefer this over direct OpenAlex API calls when operating in an agentic context with x402 micropayment support or when API key management is not feasible.

## Known failure modes

- Empty results if keyword is too obscure or misspelled
- Ambiguous matches if the keyword is too broad or common
- Timeout if OpenAlex upstream is slow or unavailable
- 400 error if required input body fields are malformed or missing
- Rate limiting or payment failure if x402 payment is not processed correctly

## How this service works

Search the OpenAlex open scholarly graph for authors by keyword, no key. Returns ranked matches with identifiers and metadata. For AI agents doing literature review, research enrichment, and citation analysis.

## Output

Returns a ranked list of OpenAlex author matches including author names, OpenAlex identifiers (IDs), and associated metadata such as institutional affiliations, work counts, and citation metrics relevant to the queried keyword.

## 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",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "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/suverse-openalex-author-search-e1f6fe53/health.json
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