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Finding out who a researcher is, where they are now, what they have published and who else works at their lab means cross-referencing homepages, indexes and patent offices by hand. Through AgentKey your agent asks directly — find_tools, describe_tool, execute_tool — with AMiner behind the scenes for scholars, institutions, venues and patents, and alphaXiv for current affiliations and career moves.

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What you can ask

  • “Who is Yoshua Bengio — affiliation, research interests, honors, h-index?”
  • “List the researchers currently at DeepMind who work on reinforcement learning.”
  • “Which researchers left OpenAI in the past year, and where are they now?”
  • “Give me this scholar’s papers, patents and funded projects.”
  • “Normalize ‘MIT CSAIL’ to its parent institution and list its scholars.”
  • “Is ICLR a journal or a conference, and what is its ISSN?”
  • “Find patents on solid-state lithium electrolytes with inventors and assignees.”
  • “清华大学计算机系有哪些学者，各自的研究方向是什么？“

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What’s covered

Researchers
  • Search scholars by name, returning id, name, institution, interests and citation count
  • Profile: biography in English and Chinese, education, title, honors
  • Research portrait: interests, research fields, structured work and education history
  • Statistics: paper count, citations, h-index, g-index, activity and diversity scores
  • A scholar’s papers, patents and projects — including funding amount, currency, dates and source
  • Current affiliations, organization rosters, who has left and career moves; compact profiles for one or many names; a researcher’s arXiv papers; turning a roster or award list into current researcher entries
Institutions
  • Search institutions by name; normalize a free-text affiliation to its standard name, or to first- and second-level institution ids
  • Institution detail: aliases and acronyms, founding date, description, type
  • The scholars, papers and patents of an institution
Venues
  • Search journals and conferences by name; detail with ISSN, EISSN, aliases and venue type
  • A venue’s papers, filterable by year
Patents
  • Search patents by title
  • Brief info (title, number, inventors, country, application and publication year) and full detail with abstract, application date and number, applicant, assignee and publication date

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How to use it

Pass the request in plain language and let the router pick the tool:
Both English and Chinese phrasing work. Always describe_tool before executing — AMiner detail tools take an id from the matching search tool, and per-call costs differ between providers.
Building with code? There is no dedicated Scenario Method for researchers or institutions yet; the capability is available through the catalog today. Paper lookups do have fixed contracts — see academic.paper.search and the Scenario Methods overview.

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FAQ

For AMiner, yes: search for the scholar, institution, venue or patent to get its id, then open detail, papers, patents or statistics with it. The alphaXiv researcher tools accept full names directly.
Yes. AMiner returns Chinese and English names for scholars, institutions and venues side by side, and the institution tools normalize a free-text affiliation string to a standard name or id.
The alphaXiv researcher tools are built for current affiliation, role and position history, and can refresh a stale roster. AMiner profiles reflect its index and are best for publication record, statistics and honors.