find_author
Search for researchers by topic or name, or retrieve a detailed author profile by ID including h-index, total citations, and top 10 papers.
Instructions
Two-mode author tool — replaces discover_authors and get_author. Provide exactly one of q or id. Q-MODE (q=...): search for researchers by topic or name — uses embedding similarity for topics ('efficient LLM inference'), fuzzy matching for names ('Yann LeCun'). Returns a list of matching authors with author_id, name, h_index, total_papers, primary_field, research_topics. ID-MODE (id=...): look up a single author profile by author_id (obtained from a previous q-mode call or from co_author_graph results). Returns h-index, total citations, global rank, primary field, novelty score distribution, research topics, code/venue scores, years active, and their top 10 papers by rank score.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| q | No | Topic or researcher name to search (q-mode). Returns a list of matching authors. Examples: 'efficient transformer training', 'Geoffrey Hinton'. | |
| id | No | Author ID for direct profile lookup (id-mode). Returns the single author profile with top 10 papers. Get IDs from q-mode results or co_author_graph. | |
| field | No | (q-mode only) Filter by primary research field e.g. 'cs.LG', 'cs.CV', 'cs.CL'. | |
| limit | No | (q-mode only) Max results to return (default 20). |