Field and topic search for research papers
Field and topic search for research papers. Give a broad field name or short phrase (like 'crispr' or 'exercise science') and get a coherent, taxonomy-grounded seed cluster: the field is resolved against the OpenAlex topics taxonomy, then the cluster returns the top-cited plus recent-influential works, each with title, authors, year, venue, citation count, and DOI. Solves the broad-term entry problem dense semantic search fails on. Keyless.
20000 (raw units)
price
6
calls / 30d
2
unique payers
2026-09-17
updated
Provider
api.kadec0.xyz · discovered, not yet claimed by its owner
Payment (x402 accepts[])
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"amount": "20000",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
}
]Output schema
{
"bazaar": {
"info": {
"input": {
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {
"maxItems": "12",
"q": "exercise science"
},
"type": "http"
},
"output": {
"example": {
"count": 1,
"items": [
{
"candidateTopics": [
{
"field": "Medicine",
"id": "T11246",
"name": "Sports injuries and prevention",
"share": 0.16,
"votes": 4
}
],
"count": 12,
"grounding": {
"field": "Medicine",
"id": "2732",
"level": "subfield",
"name": "Orthopedics and Sports Medicine",
"subfield": "Orthopedics and Sports Medicine"
},
"mode": "topic",
"query": "exercise science",
"results": [
{
"citationCount": 3056,
"clusterRole": "top_cited",
"title": "ACSM Position Stand...",
"type": "paper",
"year": 1998
}
],
"routing": {
"confidence": 0.32,
"groundingLevel": "subfield",
"isQuestion": false,
"matchedVia": "works-subfield-modal",
"wordCount": 2
},
"type": "topic_search"
}
]
},
"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": "12",
"description": "cluster size cap (1-25)",
"type": "string"
},
"q": {
"description": "a field, discipline, or short topic phrase (e.g. 'crispr', 'exercise science')",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"q"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
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"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
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"type": "object"
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}
}Use it
curl
curl "https://api.kadec0.xyz/v1/topic-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/topic-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/topic-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/342.json, and this resource appears in /discovery/resources and /discovery/search.