Api Endpoint

Author & Researcher 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.

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Offering

Provider: api.kadec0.xyz
Method: GET
Offering type: Api Endpoint
Transport type: http
Category: Science And Education
Delivery: Not provided
Pricing model: Not provided
x402 version: 2

Endpoint context

URL: https://api.kadec0.xyz/v1/author-search
MIME type: application/json
First seen: 2026-10-16T01:50:06.715Z
Last seen: 2026-11-03T20:07:28.649Z
Tags: author-search, researcher-profile, researcher-lookup, h-index, affiliation

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Payment pricing

x402 payment terms are the authoritative price for calling this endpoint.

Payment option 1: 0.02 USDC
Atomic price: 20000 · Network: eip155:8453 · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact

Raw x402 terms

[
  {
    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "eip155:8453",
    "asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
    "amount": "20000",
    "payTo": "0x4df66B6c140778fe0717880A7c6dDE5Ea53AcDeA"
  }
]

Observed health

Status: Healthy
Latest latency: 313 ms
Average latency: 376 ms
HTTP status: 402
Last checked: 2026-11-03T20:07:28.644Z
Reachability: 100% over 9 checks

Latency is measured to the first response headers. A reachable result does not verify response accuracy or merchant identity.

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "GET",
        "HEAD",
        "DELETE"
      ]
    },
    "queryParams": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "name": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "author name to search"
        },
        "maxItems": {
          "type": "string",
          "default": "10",
          "description": "1-25 candidate authors"
        },
        "top_works": {
          "type": "string",
          "default": "5",
          "description": "top papers per author (0-25)"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "name"
      ]
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output 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"
}