Find researchers across your workspace and the global OpenAlex graph, then import an author — with their works, institutions, and grants — into Dataerai.
People search lets you find researchers, not just assets. It searches the
people already in your workspace and, on demand, the global
OpenAlex scholarly graph — then lets you import an author
and their scholarly record into Dataerai.
People search lists matches from your workspace; Search the web adds OpenAlex authors.
In the search bar, choose the Person category and type a name. Dataerai
routes the query to the People results tab automatically.
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Phase 1 — your workspace (instant)
Dataerai first returns the people already in your workspace, ranked by
relevance. This is instant — no external calls.
Phase 1 — people already in your workspace.
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Phase 2 — search the web
Don’t see who you’re looking for? Click Search the web to extend the
query to OpenAlex. Web matches are merged with your local results and
de-duplicated, with an origin icon showing where each person came from.
Phase 2 — OpenAlex (web) matches merged with local results.
The web phase is deferred behind a button so a simple workspace lookup never
waits on an external service. If a search fails, Dataerai shows an explicit
error with a Retry — it never silently reports “no people found”.
Selecting a person opens a detail panel in the sidebar. For an OpenAlex author,
you can Import them into your workspace.
The person sidebar — details and the Import action.
Importing runs a cascade: it creates (or upgrades a stub of) the primary
person, then pulls in a capped first slice of their works synchronously and
queues the remainder to import in the background. Along the way it also brings in
the institutions and grants attached to those works, de-duplicated so you
don’t get repeats.
Imports call OpenAlex on your behalf and write across your workspace, so they’re
rate-limited per user. A very large author imports their first works
immediately and finishes the rest in the background — you can keep working while
the queue drains.
