Three commands.
Full pipeline.
Search the research graph, map industry signals, and export verified contacts. All from your terminal, in seconds.
Search the research graph
Query 250M+ papers across every discipline. Filter by field, institution, funding source, H-index, publication recency, and more.
Full-text search across paper titles, abstracts, and keywords
Filter by active NIH, NSF, and international grant funding
Scope to specific institutions, countries, or departments
H-index and citation count thresholds for quality filtering
Map industry signals
Surface researchers with one foot in industry. Detect patent holders, startup founders, SAB members, and recent academia-to-industry transitions.
Patent filing detection via USPTO cross-reference
Startup affiliation and SAB membership signals
Industry co-authorship tracking across publications
Co-author network mapping for community discovery
Export verified contacts
Get institutional emails verified against recent publications. Export to CSV, JSON, or pipe directly to your CRM.
Email verification against publications from last 24 months
Confidence scoring: high, likely, or unverified
CSV, JSON, and JSONL output formats
ORCID, H-index, grants, and citations included per record
OpenAlex
Open catalog of 250M+ scholarly works, 100M+ authors, and their institutional affiliations. Updated weekly from Crossref, PubMed, ORCID, and institutional repositories. The backbone of Sci-Buy's research graph.
ORCID
20M+ unique researcher identifiers linking publications, grants, and employment history. Used to disambiguate researchers with common names and track institutional transitions.
PubMed
36M+ biomedical and life sciences citations from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Essential for pharma/biotech prospecting with MeSH term search.
NIH Reporter
Active and historical grant data from the National Institutes of Health. R01 grants, funding amounts, project abstracts, and PI details. Identifies researchers with active budgets to spend.
Semantic Scholar
AI-powered academic search from the Allen Institute for AI. Provides citation contexts, influential citations, and paper-level impact metrics beyond raw citation count.
USPTO
US patent filings and grants cross-referenced against academic authors. Surfaces researchers who have commercialized their work — the strongest industry bridge signal.
Built for the market B2B tools miss.
70% of academic researchers have no LinkedIn presence. Those who do rarely list grants, H-index, or current institutional affiliations. Sales Navigator was built for corporate prospecting — university PIs, postdocs, and lab managers are invisible to it.
ZoomInfo / Apollo
B2B contact databases index corporate HR systems. They track job titles, org charts, and corporate email addresses. Academic researchers — funded by grants, employed by universities, publishing under institutional domains — simply don't appear. Try searching for any NIH-funded PI. They're not there.
Scopus / Web of Science
Citation databases designed for literature review, not B2B prospecting. No verified contact data. No industry bridge signals. No CRM-ready export. You can find a researcher's h-index but not their email, grant funding, or whether they've filed a patent.
Manual research (spreadsheets)
The status quo: cross-referencing PubMed, Google Scholar, ORCID, university faculty pages, and LinkedIn in 47 browser tabs. Building one KOL list takes 2-3 weeks. Sci-Buy does it in minutes — and the data doesn't go stale because it's pulled from authoritative sources at query time.
Six sources, one graph.
Step 1
Aggregate
Pull data from OpenAlex, ORCID, PubMed, NIH Reporter, Semantic Scholar, and USPTO. Deduplicate researchers using ORCID identifiers and fuzzy name matching. Build a unified research graph with publications, grants, citations, and patents linked to each researcher.
Step 2
Detect signals
Layer proprietary signal detection on top of the graph. Cross-reference patent filings with author records. Identify startup affiliations from co-authorship patterns. Flag industry-funded grants and consulting relationships. Score each researcher's industry readiness.
Step 3
Verify contacts
Extract institutional email addresses from recent publications (last 24 months). Cross-reference with university directory patterns. Assign confidence scores: high (verified in recent pub), likely (pattern match), unverified. Target: 85%+ deliverability on high-confidence contacts.
The entire pipeline runs at query time. No stale database — every search pulls fresh data from authoritative sources. Results are cached for the session, so subsequent queries on the same researchers are instant.
Ready to find your researchers?
Install the CLI and run your first search in under a minute. No account required to explore.
npx sci-buy@latest COPIED