INSPIRE-HEP
INSPIRE-HEP is the literature database of the high-energy physics community, run by a collaboration of laboratories that includes CERN, DESY, Fermilab and SLAC. Through ScholarMuse an agent can search its literature records by keyword when it names inspire-hep as a source, and get citation counts, collaboration names and arXiv ids for each paper.
ScholarMuse tools: search_papers. Each successful call uses credits.
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What your agent gets back
Every record carries id, source, title, url, license, attribution and retrievedAt. The fields below are the data that comes from INSPIRE-HEP.
search_papers
Only when the agent passes inspire-hep in sources. It is not part of the default search.
- doi
- First DOI on the record
- arxivId
- arXiv eprint id
- authors
- Author names, first 12
- authorCount
- Total number of authors
- collaboration
- Collaboration name, such as ATLAS
- year
- Journal year, or year of the earliest date
- date
- Earliest date on the record
- venue
- Journal title
- volume
- Journal volume
- pages
- Page range or article id
- citedBy
- Citation count in INSPIRE
- abstract
- Abstract text, cut at 2,000 characters
What it covers
- High-energy physics literature records in INSPIRE: journal papers, preprints, conference papers and other document types.
- Results come in INSPIRE's default best-match order and can be limited by year range.
- Large collaborations are represented by the collaboration name and the total author count.
Limits
- At most 25 results per call, and only the first 12 authors of each paper are listed.
- Parentheses, colons and quotation marks are removed from the query, so INSPIRE's field syntax cannot be used.
- INSPIRE has no open-access flag. A paper counts as open access when it has an arXiv eprint, and the link points to arXiv.
- get_paper does not query INSPIRE. Author, institution and conference records are not exposed.
How ScholarMuse reaches INSPIRE-HEP
The connector calls inspirehep.net/api/literature directly with the query and a fixed list of fields. No API key is sent.
Search results are cached for up to 6 hours, so citation counts can be a few hours old.
API key: the upstream API can be called without one, so you do not add one.
Licence and attribution
Licence: CC0-1.0
Data from INSPIRE-HEP (inspirehep.net), CC0.
Records that come from INSPIRE-HEP carry this licence and attribution. When you cite the data in a paper, follow INSPIRE-HEP's own citation guidance.
