# Academic Author Network

> Use this tool when you need to analyze academic author networks and identify research collaborations, co-authors, and keywords. It solves problems related to academic research analysis, collaboration mapping, and understanding research networks by aggregating data from multiple scholarly sources. The tool takes researcher profiles as input and outputs co-author lists with collaboration frequencies and keyword extracts, making it ideal for scholarly community analysis and research network mapping.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/academic-author-network  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/academic-author-network

## Description

This MCP server provides academic author network analysis by aggregating data from multiple scholarly sources including Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref, and Google Scholar to find co-authors and research keywords for academic researchers. Built by Alperen Kocyigit, it offers two core tools: co-author discovery that identifies research collaborators with collaboration frequency counts, and keyword extraction that scrapes Google Scholar profiles to retrieve research interests and areas of expertise. The implementation features intelligent rate limiting across APIs, caching to reduce redundant requests, parallel data fetching for performance, and respectful web scraping with delays, making it valuable for academic research analysis, collaboration mapping, and understanding research networks in scholarly communities.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.50
- **Verification tier:** unverified

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** browser-automation
- **Updated:** 2026-04-25

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/academic-author-network)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/alperenkocyigit/authorprofilemcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "academic-author-network"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/academic-author-network` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/academic-author-network/pull`

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