The RePEc Swiss Knife has been developed to make searches based on publications registered in RePEc, including information on authors (names, affiliations…). It uses a mix of scraping and text analysis, checking for the occurrence of one or several words. It has many uses: focused searches for literature reviews which are more precise than most existing tools; to organize a conference and build a list of guests or find a keynote speaker; to identify a specialist inside or outside an institution for human resources purposes…