search_authors

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declared in 0.1.0

Find researchers by name or institution affiliation. Returns author name, ORCID, institution, publication count, and total citations.

Parameters schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "examples": [
    {
      "query": "Yoshua Bengio"
    },
    {
      "limit": 15,
      "query": "Fei-Fei Li"
    }
  ],
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Number of results to return (1-25, default 10)"
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Author name to search for (e.g., \"Yoshua Bengio\")"
    }
  }
}

What this tool wraps· 1 endpoint

min confidence0.70 0.50

Data resourceOpenAlex API
OpenAlex · scholarly-metadata
name mention0.85

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https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-openalex

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