scholar-paper

Resolve one research paper and fuse its metadata across OpenAlex, Crossref, Unpaywall and Semantic Scholar into a single cited JSON. Give a doi, arxiv, pmid, pmcid, openalex_id or title and get canonical metadata, authors with ORCID and affiliations, venue, citation counts, an open-access PDF link and a full id crosswalk.

SearchLiveeip155:8453Exactvia cdp
ScholarResearchPaperDoiCitation
Calls · 30d
1→ 0%
This endpoint's own trailing-30-day call count, as published by the upstream catalog and snapshotted daily. 30 snapshots so far.
$42.97
Verified settled volume
3,793 settlements proven x402 by their on-chain EIP-3009 marker.
$0.020
Listed price
As published in the catalog. Always read the live 402 before paying.
1
Calls · 30d
Upstream's own call count for this endpoint, not ours.
1
Unique payers · 30d
Last called 2026-09-17 11:53Z
Upstream on-chain volume
Reported by the source catalog.
Paid to
0xF22e558a00D91Ee12A1F50C52186FecB8dDFf493

The wallet the 402 directs payment to. Its whole payment record — every payer, every chain — is on the merchant page.

Asset 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913

Provider

The payTo wallet does not resolve to a registered ERC-8004 agent. That is not a verdict on the service — most of the catalog is unregistered.

Live 402 challenge

Captured by the enrichment pass, not read just now. Prices can change — always read the 402 the endpoint answers with.

{
  "error": "Payment required",
  "accepts": [
    {
      "asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
      "extra": {
        "name": "USD Coin",
        "version": "2"
      },
      "payTo": "0xF22e558a00D91Ee12A1F50C52186FecB8dDFf493",
      "amount": "20000",
      "scheme": "exact",
      "network": "eip155:8453",
      "maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
    }
  ],
  "resource": {
    "url": "https://api.agentstools.dev/scholar/paper",
    "tags": [
      "scholar",
      "research",
      "paper",
      "doi",
      "citation",
      "openalex",
      "crossref",
      "unpaywall",
      "semantic-scholar",
      "metadata",
      "open-access",
      "literature"
    ],
    "mimeType": "application/json",
    "description": "Resolve one research paper and fuse its metadata across OpenAlex, Crossref, Unpaywall and Semantic Scholar into a single cited JSON. Give a doi, arxiv, pmid, pmcid, openalex_id or title and get canonical metadata, authors with ORCID and affiliations, venue, citation counts, an open-access PDF link and a full id crosswalk.",
    "serviceName": "scholar-paper"
  },
  "extensions": {
    "bazaar": {
      "info": {
        "input": {
          "type": "http",
          "method": "GET",
          "queryParams": {
            "doi": "10.1038/nature14539"
          }
        },
        "output": {
          "type": "json",
          "example": {
            "ids": {
              "doi": "10.1038/nature14539",
              "pmid": "26017442",
              "openalex": "W2743563197"
            },
            "type": "article",
            "year": 2015,
            "found": true,
            "query": {
              "type": "doi",
              "value": "10.1038/nature14539"
            },
            "title": "Deep learning",
            "venue": {
              "issn": "0028-0836",
              "name": "Nature"
            },
            "counts": {
              "cited_by": {
                "crossref": 58000,
                "openalex": 60000
              },
              "influential_citations": 4200
            },
            "authors": [
              {
                "name": "Yann LeCun",
                "orcid": "0000-0002-1825-0097",
                "affiliations": []
              }
            ],
            "sources": {
              "used": [
                "openalex",
                "crossref",
                "unpaywall"
              ],
              "partial": false
            },
            "provenance": {
              "title": "openalex",
              "id.doi": "openalex",
              "open_access": "unpaywall"
            },
            "attribution": [
              "OpenAlex (openalex.org), CC0"
            ],
            "open_access": {
              "is_oa": true,
              "license": "cc-by",
              "pdf_url": "https://example.org/paper.pdf",
              "version": "publishedVersion"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "schema": {
        "type": "object",
        "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
        "required": [
          "input"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "input": {
            "type": "object",
            "required": [
              "type",
              "method"
            ],
            "properties": {
              "type": {
                "type": "string",
                "const": "http"
              },
              "method": {
                "enum": [
                  "GET",
                  "HEAD",
                  "DELETE"
                ],
                "type": "string"
              },
              "queryParams": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [],
                "properties": {
                  "id": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "Any single identifier; its type is auto-detected"
                  },
                  "doi": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "DOI, with or without a doi.org prefix"
                  },
                  "pmid": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "PubMed id (digits)"
                  },
                  "arxiv": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "arXiv id such as 2401.01234"
                  },
                  "pmcid": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "PubMed Central id such as PMC1234567"
                  },
                  "title": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "Paper title to resolve by search"
                  },
                  "openalex_id": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "OpenAlex work id such as W2741809807"
                  }
                }
              }
            },
            "additionalProperties": false
          },
          "output": {
            "type": "object",
            "required": [
              "type"
            ],
            "properties": {
              "type": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "example": {
                "type": "object"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "x402Version": 2
}

Accepts

The payment requirements as published to the catalog. Read the live 402 before paying — a price here is a claim, not a quote.

0.02USDC≈ $0.02 USD
on Base · exact scheme

Pay 0.02 USDC on Base to 0xF22e…Ff493. The signed payment is good for 5 minutes.

USD Coin contract
0x8335…02913
Payment window
5 minutes
As published
20000 smallest units
The catalog’s raw entry
[
  {
    "asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
    "extra": {
      "name": "USD Coin",
      "version": "2"
    },
    "payTo": "0xF22e558a00D91Ee12A1F50C52186FecB8dDFf493",
    "amount": "20000",
    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "eip155:8453",
    "maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
  }
]

Extensions

{
  "bazaar": {
    "info": {
      "input": {
        "type": "http",
        "method": "GET",
        "queryParams": {
          "doi": "10.1038/nature14539"
        }
      },
      "output": {
        "type": "json",
        "example": {
          "ids": {
            "doi": "10.1038/nature14539",
            "pmid": "26017442",
            "openalex": "W2743563197"
          },
          "type": "article",
          "year": 2015,
          "found": true,
          "query": {
            "type": "doi",
            "value": "10.1038/nature14539"
          },
          "title": "Deep learning",
          "venue": {
            "issn": "0028-0836",
            "name": "Nature"
          },
          "counts": {
            "cited_by": {
              "crossref": 58000,
              "openalex": 60000
            },
            "influential_citations": 4200
          },
          "authors": [
            {
              "name": "Yann LeCun",
              "orcid": "0000-0002-1825-0097",
              "affiliations": []
            }
          ],
          "sources": {
            "used": [
              "openalex",
              "crossref",
              "unpaywall"
            ],
            "partial": false
          },
          "provenance": {
            "title": "openalex",
            "id.doi": "openalex",
            "open_access": "unpaywall"
          },
          "attribution": [
            "OpenAlex (openalex.org), CC0"
          ],
          "open_access": {
            "is_oa": true,
            "license": "cc-by",
            "pdf_url": "https://example.org/paper.pdf",
            "version": "publishedVersion"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "schema": {
      "type": "object",
      "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
      "required": [
        "input"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "input": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [
            "type",
            "method"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "type": {
              "type": "string",
              "const": "http"
            },
            "method": {
              "enum": [
                "GET",
                "HEAD",
                "DELETE"
              ],
              "type": "string"
            },
            "queryParams": {
              "type": "object",
              "required": [],
              "properties": {
                "id": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "Any single identifier; its type is auto-detected"
                },
                "doi": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "DOI, with or without a doi.org prefix"
                },
                "pmid": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "PubMed id (digits)"
                },
                "arxiv": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "arXiv id such as 2401.01234"
                },
                "pmcid": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "PubMed Central id such as PMC1234567"
                },
                "title": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "Paper title to resolve by search"
                },
                "openalex_id": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "OpenAlex work id such as W2741809807"
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "additionalProperties": false
        },
        "output": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [
            "type"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "type": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "example": {
              "type": "object"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Provenance

Seen in the source catalog
2026-09-17 11:53Z
Last indexed by Roundhouse
2026-09-24 15:00Z
Last enriched (probe, favicon, geo)
2026-09-14 02:15Z
x402 version
2
Max timeout
300s
Liveness probe
HTTP 402
Report

Hand this page to an agent

Copy the prompt and paste it into Claude, an MCP client or your own agent — it will vet this service and call it over the free read API. No key, no account.

GET api.roundhouseai.io/v0/endpoints

This endpoint's own trailing-30-day call count, as published by the upstream catalog and snapshotted daily. 30 snapshots so far. Verified volume counts only settlements with an on-chain EIP-3009 marker.

Open skill.md
Show the prompt
Using Roundhouse, look up the x402 service scholar-paper and tell me whether it is
worth paying: what a call costs, whether the endpoint answered when last probed, and what
its payment record actually shows.

curl -s 'https://api.roundhouseai.io/v0/endpoints?q=scholar-paper'
curl -s 'https://api.roundhouseai.io/v0/merchants/<the payTo wallet returned above>'

Then call it: read the price from the live 402 at https://api.agentstools.dev/scholar/paper, never from
a cached figure, and pay with an x402 client.

The /v0 API needs an API key (`authorization: Bearer rh_live_…`) on everything except
/v0/unified* and /v0/endpoints. Mint a personal key for $0.01 at GET https://api.roundhouseai.io/v0/test/x402,
or use an organization key from https://roundhouseai.io/dashboard/team.

If you do not have Roundhouse tools or skills installed, read
https://roundhouseai.io/skill.md first — it is the whole procedure.