Researcher search

Find anyone publishing in your field.

Search by name, ORCID iD or Google Scholar link. See their full profile, scan their recent work, and pull their entire publication list into your Research RAG with one click. Built on open, standards-based data — no account needed to search.

Open Researcher search What is Research RAG?

Three ways to find a researcher

All three methods resolve to the same rich ORCID profile. Use whichever identifier you already have.

01

Search by name

Type a researcher's name and get a ranked list of ORCID profiles. Results show their affiliation, work count and a short bio so you can tell apart researchers with common names. Click any result to open their full profile.

Try: Tri Dao, Ashish Vaswani, or any author you've seen on a paper.

02

Search by ORCID iD

Paste a 16-digit ORCID iD (with or without dashes) for an instant, unambiguous lookup. Every ORCID iD uniquely identifies one researcher — no disambiguation needed, no wrong results. ORCID is the standard identifier used across journals, institutions and funders worldwide.

Format: 0000-0002-6480-1955

03

Search by Google Scholar link

Copy a Google Scholar profile URL from your browser and paste it into the search box. KinetixAI extracts the researcher's name from the URL and runs an ORCID search automatically — no manual copy-paste of a name needed. Works with any Scholar profile URL.

Format: scholar.google.com/citations?user=…

Why ORCID?

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is the global standard for researcher identity — used by publishers, funders, journals and institutions in over 100 countries. An ORCID iD stays with a researcher for life regardless of name changes or institution moves. KinetixAI uses the public ORCID API, which means search is free, open, and requires no account on either platform.

What a researcher profile shows you

Every profile pulls live data from ORCID. Here is what each field means and how to use it.

Name & ORCID iD

The researcher's verified display name and their persistent ORCID iD. The iD is a stable bookmark — save it and you can look up this researcher again instantly, even if they change institution or publish under a different name variant.

Affiliation & bio

Current institution and a short biography if the researcher has added one to their ORCID record. Useful for confirming you have the right person and for understanding their institutional context.

Works count

Total number of works registered in their ORCID record. This includes journal articles, conference papers, preprints, data sets and other output types. A high works count usually means an active publication record — useful for calibrating how much would land in your RAG if you add them.

Researchers and papers already in the KinetixAI catalog

KinetixAI maintains a curated catalog of pre-indexed papers. When a researcher or paper appears in both your search results and the catalog, we surface it inline.

In Catalog badge

When a researcher you look up is already in the KinetixAI catalog, their profile card shows an In Catalog badge. This means their key papers are pre-indexed and available to all Research RAG users immediately — no upload needed on your part.

Currently in the catalog: Ashish Vaswani, Tri Dao, Rohit S Patel and others.

In Paper Lab → link

When a paper in the researcher's recent works list is also in the Paper Lab, a In Paper Lab → link appears next to it. Click it to open that paper as a full interactive 3D visualization — architecture, results and methodology in one panel.

Works across name search, ORCID lookup and Google Scholar import.

Researchers currently in the catalog

Ashish Vaswani

Independent / Google Brain (at time of publication)

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ORCID

Tri Dao

Princeton University / Together AI

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ORCID Scholar

Rohit S Patel

IIT Jodhpur / Equinix

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Jeenal Chaudhary

IIT Jodhpur

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Subhrakanta Mohanty

IIT Jodhpur

ragaiopssecurity

Research RAG integration

Add a researcher's entire body of work to your RAG in one click.

The most powerful thing Researcher search does is not finding a profile — it is connecting that profile directly to your private research library. Scholar and Professional feature.

01 Search Find the researcher by name, ORCID iD or Google Scholar link. Their profile opens with recent papers and work count.

02 Review Scan their recent papers and confirm this is the right person. Check the In Catalog badges to see what is already pre-indexed.

03 Add to RAG Click Add to RAG on their profile. All public papers from their ORCID record are queued for indexing into your private Research RAG workspace.

04 Ask Ask KXAI questions across their full publication list. Every answer is cited back to the exact paper, section and page it came from.

What gets added

All public works registered in the ORCID record
Journal articles, conference papers, preprints
Papers with open-access PDFs are fetched and parsed structurally
Equations, tables and code blocks indexed intact — not flattened

What you can then ask

Cross-paper questions across their full output
How their methods evolved across papers and years
Comparisons between their work and papers from other researchers you have added
Every answer cited to the exact source paper and page

Terminal access

Researcher search from the kx CLI.

Every researcher search operation is scriptable. Pipe results to JSON for automated workflows.

kx scholar "Tri Dao" Search by name. Returns a ranked list of ORCID profiles with works count, affiliation and a link to their full record.

Also: kx scholar "Tri Dao" --json — pipe to jq for scripts.

kx scholar 0000-0002-6480-1955 Direct ORCID iD lookup. Instant, unambiguous — resolves to exactly one researcher's profile and paper list.

Dashes optional: kx scholar 0000000264801955 also works.

kx scholar "Tri Dao" --add-rag Look up a researcher and immediately add their full publication list to your Research RAG. Scholar and Professional feature.

Then ask: kx rag ask "How does Tri Dao handle IO-awareness across papers?"

Full CLI reference

What's free, what's not

Searching is always free. Adding to RAG needs a plan.

Free (no account needed)

Search by name, ORCID iD or Google Scholar link
View full researcher profiles and recent works
See In Catalog badges and Paper Lab links
Click through to ORCID, Scholar and external links

Scholar and Professional

Add any researcher's full publication list to your private RAG
Ask KXAI questions across their indexed papers
Cross-researcher queries — compare two researchers' methods
CLI access: kx scholar … --add-rag

See all plan features

Common questions

Do I need an ORCID account to use Researcher search? No. KinetixAI queries the public ORCID API, which is open and requires no sign-in on either platform. You need a KinetixAI account only if you want to add a researcher's papers to your Research RAG.

What if a researcher is not on ORCID? ORCID coverage is very high for active academic researchers but not universal. If a name search returns no results, the researcher may not have an ORCID record or may publish under a different name variant. Try their institutional page name or check whether they have an ORCID iD on their faculty profile page.

How current is the data? Researcher profiles are fetched live from the ORCID API each time you search — no stale cache. Publication dates and work counts reflect whatever the researcher has registered in their ORCID record at the moment you look them up.

I pasted a Google Scholar URL and got no results. Why? KinetixAI extracts the researcher's name from Scholar URLs and runs an ORCID name search. If the Scholar profile name differs significantly from how they are registered on ORCID — a middle-name variant, a transliteration difference — the search may return few results. Try typing their name directly into the search box, or paste their ORCID iD if you can find it on their faculty page.

How many papers get added when I click Add to RAG? All public works registered in the researcher's ORCID record are queued. Only papers with open-access PDFs are downloaded and indexed for full-text search. Papers without a downloadable full text are indexed by title, abstract and metadata — still searchable, but not available for page-level citation.

Can I add papers from multiple researchers and ask across all of them? Yes. Your Research RAG workspace accumulates papers from every source you add — individual PDFs, arXiv links, GitHub repos and researcher catalogs all sit in the same searchable index. KXAI can synthesise answers that draw from two or more researchers' work in a single response.