Author and researcher profile search
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.
20000 (raw units)
price
10
calls / 30d
3
unique payers
2026-09-15
updated
Provider
api.kadec0.xyz · discovered, not yet claimed by its owner
Payment (x402 accepts[])
[
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:8453",
"payTo": "0x4df66B6c140778fe0717880A7c6dDE5Ea53AcDeA",
"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"amount": "20000",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
}
]Output schema
{
"bazaar": {
"info": {
"input": {
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {
"maxItems": "3",
"name": "Yoshua Bengio"
},
"type": "http"
},
"output": {
"example": {
"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
}
]
},
"type": "json"
}
},
"schema": {
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET",
"HEAD",
"DELETE"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"properties": {
"maxItems": {
"default": "10",
"description": "1-25 candidate authors",
"type": "string"
},
"name": {
"description": "author name to search",
"type": "string"
},
"top_works": {
"default": "5",
"description": "top papers per author (0-25)",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"name"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}
}
}Use it
curl
curl "https://api.kadec0.xyz/v1/author-search" # -> 402 Payment Required, accepts[] lists how to pay # retry with a PAYMENT-SIGNATURE (or PAYMENT header) once paid
JavaScript
const res = await fetch("https://api.kadec0.xyz/v1/author-search");
if (res.status === 402) {
const { accepts } = await res.json();
// pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment header
}Python
import httpx
res = httpx.get("https://api.kadec0.xyz/v1/author-search")
if res.status_code == 402:
accepts = res.json()["accepts"]
# pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment headerMachine-readable
Everything on this page is also available as clean JSON at /resources/323.json, and this resource appears in /discovery/resources and /discovery/search.