| name | alterlab-yok-akademik |
| description | Looks up a Turkish academic's official YOKSIS-backed profile, current affiliation, unvan (academic title), publications, research projects, and supervised theses on the YOK Akademik portal (akademik.yok.gov.tr/AkademikArama/), a server-rendered JSP app with no public JSON API, by scraping its verified endpoints (AkademisyenArama POST search, viewAuthor.jsp profile, AkademisyenProjeBilgileri, AkademisyenYonTezBilgileri) keyed by an opaque authorId, with Turkish-character (Iı Şş Ğğ Çç Öö Üü) normalization for name matching. Use when the request is to verify a Turkish academic's current institution, find a researcher on YOK Akademik, confirm affiliation for authorship or a recommendation letter, or list someone's supervised theses or projects. For admission statistics (kontenjan, taban puan) use alterlab-yokatlas; for the national thesis full-text archive use alterlab-yok-tez; for publication metadata enrichment use alterlab-openalex. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite. |
| license | MIT |
| allowed-tools | Read Write Edit Bash(python:*) Bash WebFetch |
| compatibility | No API key required — scrapes the public YOK Akademik JSP portal (akademik.yok.gov.tr/AkademikArama/) via `uv run python` (requests + BeautifulSoup, stdlib fallback) and WebFetch; there is NO official public JSON API |
| metadata | {"skill-author":"AlterLab","version":"1.0.0","last_updated":"2026-06-06","depends_on":"alterlab-yokatlas (admission stats), alterlab-yok-tez (thesis full text), alterlab-openalex (publication metadata)"} |
YOK Akademik — Official Turkish Academic Profile & Affiliation Lookup
YOK Akademik (Yükseköğretim Kurulu Akademik — the Turkish Council of Higher
Education's academic search portal) is the authoritative source for a Turkish
academic's official current affiliation. It is YÖKSİS-backed (the national
higher-education information system), so for Turkish institutions it is more
reliable than ORCID or OpenAlex affiliation strings, which lag and fragment.
This skill resolves a name to that official record: current kurum (institution),
fakülte/bölüm (faculty/department), unvan (academic title — e.g. Prof. Dr.,
Doç. Dr., Dr. Öğr. Üyesi), plus the person's portal-listed publications, research
projeler (projects), and danışmanlık yapılan tezler (supervised theses).
No public JSON API exists. The portal at akademik.yok.gov.tr/AkademikArama/
is a server-rendered Java/JSP app. The only route is polite HTML scraping of its
verified endpoints. Treat every record as authoritative-but-scraped: confirm a
candidate match with the user before asserting an affiliation.
When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when the request is to:
- Verify a Turkish academic's current institution / affiliation (for authorship
bylines, a recommendation letter, a grant team, an editorial-board check).
- Find / look up a researcher on YOK Akademik by name.
- Read someone's official unvan (title) and faculty/department.
- List the theses someone has supervised (master's / doctorate), with student,
year, and institution.
- Pull the person's portal-listed publications or research projects as a starting set.
Does NOT Trigger
Route these adjacent asks to the correct sibling skill — do not answer them here:
| The request is really about… | Use instead |
|---|
| University/program admission statistics — kontenjan, taban puan, başarı sırası, yerleşen | alterlab-yokatlas |
| Reading or citing a thesis full text / abstract from the national archive (Ulusal Tez Merkezi) | alterlab-yok-tez |
| Searching the national journal-hosting platform DergiPark | |
