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Research Data

Score 27.0 / 100 81 providers 74 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (81)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Delft University of TechnologyUniversityHigher EducationEducationTechnical University3 APIs62.4University of Michigan-Ann ArborUniversityHigher EducationEducationPublic Research University7 APIs57.9
Developing 22 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
FigshareData RepositoryOpen ScienceDOI10 APIs52.3University of California, San DiegoEducationHigher EducationUniversityPublic Research University12 APIs51.0KU LeuvenUniversityHigher EducationEducationBelgium49 APIs50.7University of British ColumbiaEducationHigher EducationUniversityPublic Research University7 APIs49.2University of ManchesterUniversityHigher EducationEducationResearch5 APIs47.8DryadOpen ScienceData RepositoryDatasets7 APIs46.9University of EdinburghUniversityHigher EducationEducationUnited Kingdom10 APIs46.9University of AmsterdamUniversityHigher EducationEducationPublic Research University9 APIs44.6University of Hong KongEducationHigher EducationUniversityHong Kong7 APIs44.5University of ChicagoUniversityHigher EducationEducationPrivate Research University44 APIs44.4Nanyang Technological UniversityUniversityHigher EducationEducationSingapore4 APIs43.5Loughborough UniversityEducationHigher EducationUniversityUnited Kingdom11 APIs42.0Peking UniversityUniversityHigher EducationEducationChina8 APIs41.8Erasmus University RotterdamEducationHigher EducationUniversity12 APIs41.7DataCiteDOIPersistent IdentifiersScholarly Metadata16 APIs41.2University of OxfordUniversityHigher EducationEducationResearch10 APIs41.1University of AucklandEducationHigher EducationUniversity12 APIs41.0Macquarie UniversityEducationHigher EducationUniversity12 APIs40.8University of SheffieldEducationHigher EducationUniversity12 APIs40.8University of CalgaryEducationHigher EducationUniversityResearch16 APIs40.3Princeton UniversityUniversityHigher EducationEducationIvy League14 APIs39.5University of WarsawEducationHigher EducationUniversityPoland7 APIs39.3
Thin 29 Limited public surface area
Department of EnergyEnergyGovernmentRenewable EnergyElectricity22 APIs38.5RWTH Aachen UniversityEducationHigher EducationUniversity49 APIs38.5LabstepCompanyElectronic Lab NotebookLife SciencesLaboratory1 API37.7Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaHealthcarePediatricsFHIRSMART on FHIR8 APIs37.6University of BaselEducationHigher EducationUniversitySwitzerland9 APIs37.1Utrecht UniversityEducationHigher EducationUniversityNetherlands21 APIs37.0University of AlbertaEducationHigher EducationUniversity4 APIs36.7Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamEducationHigher EducationUniversityNetherlands28 APIs35.0Technical University of DenmarkEducationHigher EducationUniversity3 APIs34.2University of GroningenEducationHigher EducationUniversityResearch75 APIs33.6University of PaduaEducationHigher EducationUniversityOpen Data19 APIs33.6McGill UniversityEducationHigher EducationUniversity4 APIs33.3University of GenevaEducationHigher EducationUniversityOpen Science5 APIs33.1University of GöttingenEducationHigher EducationUniversity35 APIs32.1TU DresdenEducationHigher EducationUniversityResearch9 APIs31.8University of North Carolina at Chapel HillEducationHigher EducationUniversity39 APIs31.2Cancer.govCancerFederal-GovernmentHealthcareResearch10 APIs31.0University of BirminghamEducationHigher EducationUniversityUnited Kingdom4 APIs30.8Newcastle UniversityEducationHigher EducationUniversityUnited Kingdom8 APIs30.7University of Cape TownEducationHigher EducationUniversity7 APIs30.3National Yang Ming Chiao Tung UniversityEducationHigher EducationUniversityTaiwan25 APIs29.5UCLouvainEducationHigher EducationUniversityOpen Data39 APIs29.3California Institute of TechnologyUniversityHigher EducationEducationPrivate Research University11 APIs29.1Queen's University at KingstonEducationHigher EducationUniversityOpen Data38 APIs28.6Tecnológico de MonterreyEducationHigher EducationUniversityOpen Data25 APIs28.3US Department of CommerceCommerceFederal-GovernmentOpen DataTrade9 APIs28.3U.S. Geological SurveyFederal GovernmentGeologicalEarth ScienceNatural Resources11 APIs28.0National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)CybersecurityGovernmentMeasurementsResearch5 APIs26.7University of ChileEducationHigher EducationUniversity25 APIs26.7
Emerging 26 Early or largely undocumented
University of LausanneEducationHigher EducationUniversitySwitzerland4 APIs25.6Brown UniversityEducationHigher EducationUniversityResearch3 APIs24.1University of BonnEducationHigher EducationUniversity5 APIs24.0Arizona State UniversityEducationHigher EducationUniversity4 APIs23.0Technical University of DarmstadtEducationHigher EducationUniversity4 APIs22.7Technical University of BerlinEducationHigher EducationUniversity3 APIs22.2University of GlasgowEducationHigher EducationUniversityResearch2 APIs22.2Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyEducationHigher EducationUniversityResearch3 APIs21.9UCLEducationHigher EducationUniversityUnited Kingdom6 APIs20.8Universität HamburgEducationHigher EducationUniversityGermany2 APIs20.8University of Texas at AustinEducationHigher EducationUniversityResearch3 APIs20.1TU WienEducationHigher EducationUniversity3 APIs19.9Sorbonne UniversityEducationHigher EducationUniversityOpen Science3 APIs19.2University of FreiburgEducationHigher EducationUniversityResearch3 APIs19.2Karlsruhe Institute of TechnologyEducationHigher EducationUniversityResearch4 APIs18.9University of ReadingEducationHigher EducationUniversityResearch2 APIs18.6University of TübingenEducationHigher EducationUniversity2 APIs18.6Washington University in St. LouisEducationHigher EducationUniversityResearch2 APIs18.6Fudan UniversityEducationHigher EducationUniversity1 API18.4University of TwenteEducationHigher EducationUniversity1 API18.4University of LiverpoolEducationHigher EducationUniversityResearch2 APIs17.6University of LeedsEducationHigher EducationUniversityUnited Kingdom3 APIs17.3University of PittsburghEducationHigher EducationUniversityOpen Data4 APIs17.3University of CampinasEducationHigher EducationUniversity2 APIs17.0Autonomous University of BarcelonaEducationHigher EducationUniversitySpain2 APIs16.0RMIT UniversityEducationHigher EducationUniversity1 API15.7
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
Clue (BioWink)FemtechWomen's HealthReproductive HealthPeriod Tracker7.783 SciencesCompanyMaterials ScienceArtificial Intelligence4.6

APIs with this tag (68)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Deep Blue Data REST APIPublic REST API for Deep Blue Data, the University of Michigan Library's open repository for research datas...57.9
Developing 10 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Edinburgh DataShare OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Edinburgh DataShare. Fully anonymous, no key, twelve metadata ...46.9Loughborough Research Repository OAI-PMHOAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint for the Loughborough Research Repository, served via figshare and scop...42.0PKU Open Research Data Platform (Dataverse REST API)Dataverse-based research data repository operated by the PKU Library across social science, health, bioinfo...41.8PKU Open Research Data Platform (OAI-PMH)OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for the Open Research Data Platform, verified responding to the Id...41.8University of Auckland Figshare OAI-PMH ServiceOAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint for the University of Auckland Figshare research repository. Supports ...41.0Macquarie University Research Data Repository (OAI-PMH)The Figshare-backed Research Data Repository exposes metadata for harvest via the OAI-PMH protocol through ...40.8PRISM Research Data Repository (Borealis Dataverse)The University of Calgary's PRISM research-data repository is a Dataverse collection hosted on the Borealis...40.3DataSpace Institutional Repository — OAI-PMHDataSpace is Princeton's older DSpace-based institutional repository for theses, dissertations and archived...39.5Dane Badawcze UW OAI-PMH EndpointOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the University of Warsaw Research Data Repository (Dataverse)....39.3Dane Badawcze UW Research Data Repository REST APIThe University of Warsaw Research Data Repository (Dane Badawcze UW) is a Dataverse-based institutional rep...39.3
Thin 27 Limited public surface area
DOE Data Explorer APIThe DOE Data Explorer API allows querying the Department of Energy's repository of research datasets result...38.5Labstep APIThe Labstep REST API exposes the same generic entity surface the Labstep application uses — experiments, pr...37.7D3b Data Sharing PlatformsThe Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine (D3b) at CHOP operates the open research data infrastru...37.6DaSCH DSP-APIThe DaSCH Service Platform API (DSP-API, formerly Knora), an open-source HTTP API for long-term preservatio...37.1edoc DSpace REST APIPublic DSpace REST API for "edoc", the open-access institutional repository of the University of Basel, run...37.1University of Alberta Borealis OAI-PMH Metadata HarvestingPublished University of Alberta collections and datasets on Borealis are harvestable via the Open Archives ...36.7VU Amsterdam research data on DataverseNLVrije Universiteit Amsterdam publishes and shares research datasets through DataverseNL, the national Datav...35.0iBridges / Python API for iRODSOpen-source Python client libraries and tooling for interacting with iRODS research-data-management storage...33.6Research Data Unipd OAI-PMHResearch Data Unipd is the EPrints-based research-data archive of the University of Padua, supporting data ...33.6GRO.data OAI-PMH MetadataOAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint for GRO.data (Göttingen Research Online), the Dataverse-based research...32.1OpARA Research Data RepositoryOpARA (Open Access Repository and Archive) is the research-data repository for researchers of TU Dresden an...31.8NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC) APIThe external-facing REST interface for the NCI Genomic Data Commons. Drives the GDC Data Portal and GDC Sub...31.0NCI MoDaC APIThe NCI Model and Data Clearinghouse (MoDaC) API provides programmatic access to cancer research data, comp...31.0UBIRA eData OAI-PMHOpen Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) interface for UBIRA eData, the Universi...30.8data.ncl Research Data Repository (Figshare)Newcastle University's institutional research data repository, powered by Figshare, for documenting, archiv...30.7ECPPEC Electoral Data APIAPI for the Eighteenth-Century Political Participation and Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) research project, pro...30.7DataFirst Microdata Catalog API (NADA)DataFirst is a UCT research unit and data service providing online access to survey and administrative micr...30.3ZivaHub Open Data (Figshare API)ZivaHub is UCT's institutional open data repository for research data and scholarly outputs, powered by Fig...30.3NYCU Dataverse OAI-PMH EndpointOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint ("NYCU Dataverse Dataverse OAI Archive") for harvesting dataset me...29.5Open Data @ UCLouvain Dataverse OAI-PMHThe UCLouvain Dataverse repository exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint ("Open Data @ UCLouv...29.3CaltechDATA OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for CaltechDATA. Verified live 2026-08-19 via the Identify verb (r...29.1CaltechDATA REST APIPublic REST API for CaltechDATA, the Caltech institutional research data repository. Returns published reco...29.1NIST Data Discovery APIThe National Institute of Standards and Technology provides a Data Discovery API giving access to NIST's pu...28.3Tec de Monterrey Dataverse OAI-PMH EndpointPublic OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the Tecnológico de Monterrey Dataverse OAI Archive. Ver...28.3Asset Identifier Service (AIS)The USGS Asset Identifier Service (AIS) allows USGS personnel to reserve, register, publish, and manage USG...28.0ScienceBaseScienceBase is a USGS Trusted Digital Repository that provides permission-controlled and public access to s...28.0NIST Data GatewayProvides access to NIST's scientific and technical databases across multiple domains.26.7
Emerging 30 Early or largely undocumented
Brown Digital Repository (BDR) APIPublic REST/search API for the Brown Digital Repository, the library's platform for gathering, indexing, st...24.1bonndata OAI-PMH Metadata EndpointOAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) endpoint for the bonndata repository, s...24.0ASU Library Research Data Repository APIThe ASU Library Research Data Repository runs on the open-source Dataverse platform (verified version 6.10....23.0ASU Research Data Repository OAI-PMHThe ASU Library Research Data Repository Dataverse OAI Archive exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting e...23.0TUdatalib DSpace REST APIREST API of TUdatalib, the institutional research-data repository of TU Darmstadt, running on DSpace 8.1. T...22.7TUdatalib OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for TUdatalib (DSpace 8.1). Verified live: Identify returns repos...22.7DepositOnce DSpace REST APIDSpace 8.1 REST/HAL API for the DepositOnce repository, exposing communities, collections, items, bitstream...22.2DepositOnce OAI-PMH InterfaceOpen Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH 2.0) endpoint for DepositOnce, the insti...22.2Enlighten Research Data OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Enlighten Research Data, the University of Glasgow's EPrints r...22.2DataSpace@HKUST Research Data Repository APIDataSpace@HKUST is the institutional research data repository for the HKUST research community, hosted on D...21.9Open-Access-Portal Universität HamburgOpen Access discovery portal aggregating freely available publications, research data, teaching materials, ...20.8UCL Research Data Repository (Figshare tenancy)The UCL Research Data Repository is UCL's institutional data repository, used to deposit, archive, publish ...20.8Texas Data Repository (Dataverse) APIUT Austin publishes and archives research datasets in the Texas Data Repository, a Dataverse instance hoste...20.1TU Wien Research Data OAI-PMHOAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for the TU Wien Research Data repository (InvenioRDM), supporting sta...19.9TU Wien Research Data REST APIPublic REST API of the TU Wien Research Data repository, built on InvenioRDM. Provides programmatic access ...19.9FreiData InvenioRDM REST APIREST API for the FreiData research-data repository, the university's InvenioRDM-based platform for publishi...19.2Recherche Data Gouv Dataverse - Sorbonne Université CollectionSorbonne Université maintains a research-data collection on the French national Recherche Data Gouv reposit...19.2RADAR / RADAR4KIT Archive APIRADAR4KIT is KIT's interdisciplinary research-data repository for archiving and publishing research data, b...18.9Digital Commons Data@Becker (Research Repository)The Becker Medical Library / School of Medicine research data repository runs on the Elsevier Digital Commo...18.6FDAT Repository OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the FDAT research data repository. Exposes dataset metadata in...18.6FDAT Repository REST APIJSON REST API for the FDAT institutional research data repository, operated by the University of Tübingen D...18.6Research Data Archive OAI-PMH Metadata APIOAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for the University of Reading Research Data Archive (EPrints), a mult...18.6Fudan University Dataverse (Research Data Repository)Fudan University Dataverse is a research data repository built on the Dataverse open-source platform, hosti...18.4DataCat Research Data Catalogue OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for DataCat, the University of Liverpool research data catalogue ...17.6D-Scholarship@Pitt OAI-PMHD-Scholarship@Pitt is the University Library System's institutional repository of research and scholarly ou...17.3Project Tycho APIProject Tycho, hosted at the University of Pittsburgh, provides standardized global health and epidemiologi...17.3Research Data Leeds Repository (OAI-PMH)The institutional research data repository for the University of Leeds, powered by EPrints 3. It exposes a ...17.3REDU Dataverse Native & Search APIREDU (Repositório de Dados de Pesquisa da Unicamp) is Unicamp's institutional research data repository runn...17.0REDU OAI-PMH Metadata EndpointOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for REDU, the Unicamp Research Data Repository. Confirmed live: ve...17.0CSUC Research Data Repository (CORA RDR)UAB research data is published via the Catalan Consortium of University Services (CSUC) federated, multidis...16.0

Score breakdown

Frequency
57.0
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
2.2
spread across providers
Quality lift
35.2
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
34.2
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

OAI-PMH 60 co-occurrences University 69 co-occurrences Repository 49 co-occurrences Higher Education 69 co-occurrences Open Access 33 co-occurrences Dataverse 13 co-occurrences Harvesting 15 co-occurrences Dataverses 11 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag55
Api tag74

Cohort brief

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The 81 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Research Data, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
81
all scored
Mean Kin Score
31.6
+10.9 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
18.1
+8.4 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
4.6–62.4
median 31 · σ 11.6
How the 81 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 2Developing 22Thin 29Emerging 26Minimal 2
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 38.8 17.5 +21.3 81
Operational Transparency 24.9 11.3 +13.6 81
Access Clarity 31.4 22.3 +9.1 81
Discoverability 67.9 60.4 +7.5 81
Contract Governance 11.8 6.4 +5.4 81
Developer Ergonomics 13.8 17.9 -4.1 81

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 0% 16% -16
MCP server (first-party) 0% 7% -7
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 23% 9% +14
Security 100% 88% +12
Arazzo workflows 0% 2% -2
Governance rules 60% 13% +47

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Delft University of Technology 62.4
  2. 2 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 57.9
  3. 3 Figshare 52.3
  4. 4 University of California, San Diego 51
  5. 5 KU Leuven 50.7
  6. 6 University of British Columbia 49.2
  7. 7 University of Manchester 47.8
  8. 8 Dryad 46.9
  9. 9 University of Edinburgh 46.9
  10. 10 University of Amsterdam 44.6
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 U.S. Geological Survey 35.4
  2. 2 Erasmus University Rotterdam 33.1
  3. 3 Figshare 33.1
  4. 4 Loughborough University 33.1
  5. 5 Macquarie University 33.1
  6. 6 University of Auckland 33.1
  7. 7 University of Chicago 33.1
  8. 8 University of Sheffield 33.1
  9. 9 University of Edinburgh 32.5
  10. 10 University of Amsterdam 31.3
All 81 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 25 August 2026, across 26891 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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