Research
Providers using this tag (430)
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 8 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 49 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 102 Limited public surface area
Emerging 142 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 125 Almost no public developer surface
Unrated 1 Not yet scored
APIs with this tag (244)
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 →
Exemplar 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 14 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 39 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 72 Limited public surface area
Emerging 107 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 7 Almost no public developer surface
Companies reaching this through an API (68)
These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Research” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.
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Score breakdown
Where this tag sits
430 providers carry this tag directly, and 434 counting the 1 narrower tag below — 4 more to reach.
Related tags
Where this tag comes from
Markets provisional
Kin Score markets whose measured providers carry this tag. Share is the fraction of the market's measured providers that carry it — it describes the market, not this tag.
| Market | Share of the market's providers |
|---|---|
| Higher Education and Research | 49% |
| Quantum Computing (hardware, cloud and software) | 31% |
| IIIF and Cultural Heritage (GLAM image interoperability, Linked Art) | 26% |
| Book Publishing (ONIX / ISBN / EPUB supply chain) | 24% |
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 397 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Research, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discoverability | 61.6 | 57.9 | +3.7 | 397 |
| Contract Quality | 20.9 | 17.2 | +3.7 | 397 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 25 | 23.2 | +1.8 | 397 |
| Contract Governance | 7.9 | 6.5 | +1.4 | 397 |
| Operational Transparency | 12.5 | 13 | -0.5 | 397 |
| Access Clarity | 22.1 | 23.9 | -1.8 | 397 |
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.
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 10% | 13% | -3 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 9% | 12% | -3 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 15% | 11% | +4 |
| Security | 100% | 98% | +2 |
| Arazzo workflows | 0% | 2% | -2 |
| Governance rules | 25% | 16% | +9 |
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.
- 1 GatiFlow 95.3
- 2 Clarivate 72.1
- 3 Fodda (PSFK) 67.1
- 4 Space Frontiers 63.4
- 5 Factset 62
- 6 Perplexity 61.6
- 7 University of Waterloo 61.3
- 8 AccuraCite 59.3
- 9 Elsevier 58.1
- 10 Plinth US Grants Data 57
- 1 Space Frontiers 68.9
- 2 Perplexity 61.6
- 3 GatiFlow 59.3
- 4 Exa 55.6
- 5 Sylvia API 55.3
- 6 Fodda (PSFK) 53.9
- 7 Plinth US Grants Data 53.9
- 8 Morningstar 53.7
- 9 Yutori 51.1
- 10 Factset 50
Coverage caveat. 339 of 397 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 24 October 2026, across 31984 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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