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Author Search

by Author & Researcher Search in Search & web

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Author and researcher profile search. An author name returns matching researchers with current affiliation, publication count, total citations, h-index and i10-index, and their most-cited papers — for author lookup, disambiguation, and citation-metrics. Keyless via OpenAlex.

GET https://api.kadec0.xyz/v1/author-search

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Response time
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How to call it

# See the payment challenge (nothing is charged)
curl -i -X GET "https://api.kadec0.xyz/v1/author-search?maxItems=3&name=Yoshua+Bengio"
import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { x402Client } from "@x402/core/client";
import { ExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

const client = new x402Client().register(
  "eip155:8453",
  new ExactEvmScheme(privateKeyToAccount(process.env.AGENT_KEY)),
);
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? Preflight it first for $0.005:
// GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.kadec0.xyz%2Fv1%2Fauthor-search
const res = await pay("https://api.kadec0.xyz/v1/author-search?maxItems=3&name=Yoshua+Bengio");
console.log(await res.json());

Example input

{
  "maxItems": "3",
  "name": "Yoshua Bengio"
}

Example output

{
  "count": 1,
  "items": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        {
          "country": "CA",
          "name": "Mila"
        }
      ],
      "citedByCount": 453326,
      "hIndex": 184,
      "i10Index": 600,
      "name": "Yoshua Bengio",
      "openAlexId": "https://openalex.org/A...",
      "topWorks": [
        {
          "citedByCount": 81540,
          "title": "Deep Learning",
          "year": 2015
        }
      ],
      "type": "author",
      "worksCount": 1284
    }
  ]
}

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