Get Author
get_author_contextRead-onlyIdempotent
Fetch agent-oriented context for a Lacuna author.
Author profiles describe research output (papers, directions, impact). A
free-text `affiliation` field may be present but can be incomplete or
outdated and may not represent current employment; the corpus has no
biography or employment history, so do not infer those from this data.
view selects the response shape:
- "context" (default, recommended): Lacuna's compact author context — capped
readable papers and an `impact_directions` list (named research directions)
in place of the raw numeric `impact_clusters` telemetry, with the duplicated
nested author record dropped server-side.
- "full": the bounded full-shape author context (raw `impact_clusters`,
nested author record; server collections are capped at 100).
Set include_neighbors=True to include similar authors as named, linkable
records. Neighbor computation may add significant server latency.
Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| view | No | context | |
| author_id_or_url | Yes | ||
| include_neighbors | No |
Output Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
No arguments | |||