Cross-Lingual Dark Science Arbitrage Scout

$1.50 USDC per call · Research integrity · POST /api/v1/mine-foreign-research · Id foreignResearchScout

Finds scientific work that exists only in non-English literature. Give an English topic, a technical bottleneck, or a paper you know (seedPaper: DOI or arXiv id); the scout plans native-terminology searches in up to 6 languages (default zh, ja, de, fr, ko) across OpenAlex, Crossref, HAL, J-STAGE and Europe PMC, drops works that already have an English twin, and returns up to 8 ranked discoveries. The result leads with a verdict (LEADS_FOUND, WEAK_LEADS, NO_LEADS, INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE or PARTIAL), the top pick, its confidence and a concrete next step. Each discovery carries an English title and methodology translation, pattern-extracted quote-verified numeric results, index-sourced institutions, a computed known-in-English risk (OpenAlex English citers and title similarity) and a deterministic 0-100 commercial whitespace score built from a two-sample model judgment of novelty and readiness. Review articles are flagged and ranked below primary studies. Judgments rest on titles and abstracts, not full texts. If an index or the scoring model is unavailable you still get a signed partial result that names what is missing. Not investment, legal or technical due-diligence advice: confirm with the authors before acting.

What you get

Finds candidate technologies published only in zh/ja/de/fr/ko venues before they are translated or licensed, with a ranked shortlist, translated methodology and verified numbers, in about 35 seconds instead of days of manual multilingual searching.

Call it

Send the JSON body below to https://agents.writerslogic.com/api/v1/mine-foreign-research. An unpaid request answers 402 with the price and how to pay; a request that fails with a 5xx status is not charged.

curl -i -X POST https://agents.writerslogic.com/api/v1/mine-foreign-research \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"researchTopic":"sulfide solid electrolytes for all-solid-state lithium batteries","targetLanguages":["ja","zh","de"],"fromDate":"2020-01-01","maxResults":5}'

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
`researchTopic`	string; length 3..500	no	English research topic, e.g. "sulfide solid electrolytes for all-solid-state lithium batteries".
`technicalBottleneck`	string; length 3..1000	no	English description of an unsolved technical bottleneck. Provide this, researchTopic or seedPaper (or several).
`seedPaper`	string; length 5..300	no	An English-language paper you already know, as a DOI (bare or doi.org URL) or arXiv id/URL. Its title becomes the research topic (or is added to it) so the scout finds non-English work on the same problem.
`targetLanguages`	array<string>; max 6 items	no	ISO 639-1 codes of non-English languages to mine (max 6). Default zh, ja, de, fr, ko.
`fromDate`	string	no	Earliest publication date. Default: 10 years before the call.
`toDate`	string	no	Latest publication date (inclusive).
`maxResults`	integer; 1..8	no	Discoveries to return (default 5, max 8).

Example request body

{
  "researchTopic": "sulfide solid electrolytes for all-solid-state lithium batteries",
  "targetLanguages": [
    "ja",
    "zh",
    "de"
  ],
  "fromDate": "2020-01-01",
  "maxResults": 5
}

Result

The response is { "data": ..., "_provenance": ... }. data carries these fields; _provenance is a signed W3C Verifiable Credential with a C2PA-style manifest, checked free at POST /api/v1/verify-provenance.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`status`	string; one of "OK", "INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE", "PARTIAL"	yes	PARTIAL: the scoring model was unavailable or timed out, so candidates are listed unscored (score and confidence null).
`verdict`	string; one of "LEADS_FOUND", "WEAK_LEADS", "NO_LEADS", "INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE", "PARTIAL"	yes	LEADS_FOUND: a primary study scores >= 40 with confidence >= 0.6. WEAK_LEADS: best primary study scores 20-39 or has lower confidence. NO_LEADS: nothing above 20 or only reviews. INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE: nothing retrieved or every candidate has an English twin. PARTIAL: candidates unscored.
`confidence`	number	yes	0-1, the top pick's confidence; 0 when there is no pick.
`topPick`	one of	yes
`summary`	string	yes	One-paragraph plain-language result.
`nextStep`	string	yes	Concrete recommended action.
`partial`	boolean	yes	True when anything was unavailable; see missing.
`missing`	array<string>	yes
`seed`	one of	yes
`researchFocus`	string	yes
`searchPlan`	object	yes
`discoveries`	array<object>	yes
`droppedAsEnglishTwin`	array<object>	yes
`sourcesQueried`	array<string>	yes
`sourceFailures`	array<object>	yes
`coverage`	object	yes
`scoringFormula`	string	yes
`evidenceGaps`	array<string>	yes

Pay and connect

Available through: x402 (USDC on Base), MCP, RapidAPI, Apify.

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