The phrase "attempt to identify a" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing efforts to recognize or determine something specific, often in academic or analytical contexts.
Example: "In this study, we will attempt to identify a correlation between diet and mental health."
Alternatives: "try to determine a" or "make an effort to recognize a".
But later she explained that her comments were merely her attempt to identify a problem.
The "Third Way" discourse is Blair's attempt to identify a distinctive approach and agenda.
The officers obtained communications data without judicial permission in an attempt to identify a Sunday Mail reporter's source.
While Kiehl and his colleagues are looking for a biological marker for psychopathy, molecular biologists have been analyzing DNA, in an attempt to identify a genetic marker.
The 2050 Edinburgh City Vision is a council initiative, spearheaded by Andrew Kerr, the council's chief executive, as an attempt to identify a "North Star".
Then, the swirl burners were investigated in an attempt to identify a correlation with the swirl strength for a range of vane angles and air flow rates.
In an ambitious analysis published in the journal Psychological Bulletin in 1999, psychologists at the University of Wisconsin reviewed more than 200 studies of gender difference and self-esteem in an attempt to identify a general trend.
Here again, it is standard for leading theories to assume away the possibility of regulatory overlap and attempt to identify a single rule or procedure that will perform best under conditions of uncertainty.
Rather than attempt to identify a single exact value for the social cost of carbon, mitigation policy should be designed with the goal being to manage uncertain climate risks.
What the ex-territory project and EU-Man have in common, he said, is their attempt "to identify a new culture which is coming to the world" following globalization.
In an attempt to identify a new lead molecule that would enable the design of inhibitors with enhanced affinity for glycogen phosphorylase (GP), β-d-glucopyranosyl bismethoxyphosphoramidate (phosphoramidate), a glucosyl phosphate analogue, was tested for inhibition of the enzyme.
