> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.agentkey.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Researcher and institution data for AI agents

> Researcher profiles, h-index and citation stats, papers, patents and projects, plus institution, venue and patent lookups for AI agents.

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.

## 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？"*

## 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

## How to use it

Pass the request in plain language and let the router pick the tool:

```text theme={null}
find_tools(q="h-index and research interests of Yoshua Bengio")
find_tools(q="清华大学计算机系的学者列表")
find_tools(prefix="academic/aminer")         # scholars, institutions, venues, patents
find_tools(prefix="academic/alphaxiv")       # current affiliations, rosters, career moves
describe_tool("<returned Provider/Operation>")
execute_tool("<Provider/Operation>", { ...params })
```

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.

> [!NOTE]
>
> **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`](/api-reference/scenario/methods/academic-paper-search)
> and the [Scenario Methods overview](/api-reference/scenario/overview).

## FAQ

> **Do I need an id first?**
>
> 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.

> **Does it handle Chinese names and institutions?**
>
> 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.

> **How current are affiliations?**
>
> 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.


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