# SYNTHORA OpenAlex Author Disambiguation Search

> SYNTHORA OpenAlex Author Disambiguation Search is a paid API for AI agents from openalex-author-search.hergertsynthora.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Searches OpenAlex's disambiguated author index to return canonical author IDs, ORCIDs, affiliations, works count, h-index, and citation counts for a given query.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://openalex-author-search.hergertsynthora.com/service
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/synthora-openalex-author-disambiguation-search-5fa359e2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_6Dwo_Qg_6G3QS9y0JGCQw

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 synthora-openalex-author-disambiguation-search-5fa359e2 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the OpenAlex author disambiguation index for 'Yoshua Bengio' and give me his canonical author ID, ORCID, current affiliation, h-index, and total citation count.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to resolve, disambiguate, or retrieve scholarly metrics for academic authors using the OpenAlex knowledge graph — particularly when you need canonical author IDs, ORCIDs, or bibliometric data like h-index and citation counts for autonomous research agents or expertise-ranking workflows. Prefer over general web search when you need structured, machine-readable author identity data tied to the global scholarly graph.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or missing query returns error: 'No query provided'
- Author name too ambiguous returns multiple low-confidence candidates or top-ranked mismatch
- Researcher not indexed in OpenAlex returns empty results
- Network or upstream OpenAlex API outage causes service unavailability
- Misspelled name may return no results or incorrect author match

## How this service works

Searches OpenAlex's disambiguated author index, returning canonical author IDs, ORCID, affiliations, works count, h-index and cited-by counts. Powers autonomous research agents and agent-to-agent expertise-ranking and author-resolution tasks across the scholarly knowledge graph. First 3 calls FREE per wallet — send header X-WALLET: 0x<addr>. No charge on upstream failure.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with ok status, a result containing the author's canonical OpenAlex ID, ORCID, institutional affiliations, total works count, h-index, and cited-by count, along with provenance metadata linking back to the OpenAlex API.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "query"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "ok": true,
  "niche": "openalex-author-search",
  "result": {
   "error": "No query provided"
  },
  "provenance": {
   "url": "https://api.openalex.org/authors",
   "source": "OpenAlex Author Disambiguation Search"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/synthora-openalex-author-disambiguation-search-5fa359e2/health.json
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