# Suverse OpenAlex Institution Search

> Suverse OpenAlex Institution Search is a paid API for AI agents from proxy.suverse.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

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

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://proxy.suverse.io/v1/data/suverse-openalex-institutions
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/suverse-openalex-institution-search-194145ee
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_rS6VBXB1HTgPRN-XXh6Cj

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-institution-search-194145ee -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the OpenAlex scholarly graph for institutions matching 'MIT' and return their identifiers and metadata so I can use them in a literature review pipeline.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to resolve institution names or keywords to structured OpenAlex identifiers and metadata, especially within literature review, research enrichment, or citation analysis workflows. It is particularly useful when you need a no-API-key path to the OpenAlex scholarly graph and want ranked results for disambiguation. Prefer this over direct OpenAlex API calls when operating in an agentic, pay-per-use environment via x402.

## Known failure modes

- Keyword too vague returns too many low-relevance institutions
- Obscure or non-English institution names may return no matches
- Misspelled institution names reduce match quality
- Rate limiting or payment failure (x402) blocks the request
- Empty body or missing required fields returns a schema validation error

## How this service works

Search the OpenAlex open scholarly graph for institutions 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 institution matches from the OpenAlex scholarly graph, each including the OpenAlex institution ID, canonical name, and associated metadata such as country, type, and related identifiers — enabling downstream use in literature review pipelines, citation graph construction, and research enrichment workflows.

## 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

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