yyyy/claude-scholar/skills/openalex/SKILL.md

openalex

Skill39 starsChanged 8 months agoMITView on GitHub

Query and analyze scholarly literature using the OpenAlex API. Use for literature searches, finding papers by author or institution, citation analysis, and bibliometric queries.

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6 other projects use a version of this.

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shiquda/openalex-skilltheir own version, first seen Oct 17, 2026
talhaMah56/claude_skillstheir own version, first seen Sep 12, 2026
wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleeptheir own version, first seen Jul 15, 2026
raja21068/AutoResearchtheir own version, first seen May 5, 2026
Out-bloodspavin173/openalex-skilltheir own version, first seen Apr 28, 2026
oksure/openalex-research-mcptheir own version, first seen Mar 9, 2026

Other versions6 projects use a version of this.
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wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep★ 19ksame name
oksure/openalex-research-mcp★ 55same name
shiquda/openalex-skill★ 4same name
Out-bloodspavin173/openalex-skill★ 3same name
raja21068/AutoResearch★ 2same name
talhaMah56/claude_skills★ 0same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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- critique-manuscriptSkill
- doi-bibtexSkill
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The file

We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

2 rules. 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.

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Common
Most of the 6 edited versions we read keep these.
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Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

Common
Distinctive
Very specific

Very specific:
Use the bundled dependency-aware CLI.
line 12
Very specific:
Do not import openalex_client.py from uv run python -.
line 20

“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 6 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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SKILL.md

OpenAlex literature search

Query the OpenAlex API for academic papers, authors, institutions, and citation data.

CLI

Use the bundled dependency-aware CLI. Its inline script metadata installs requests in an isolated uv environment without modifying the caller's lockfile.

OPENALEX="<skill-directory>/scripts/openalex.py"
uv run --script "$OPENALEX" search-works "CRISPR"

Do not import openalex_client.py from uv run python -; stdin scripts ignore the client's inline dependency metadata.

The client handles rate limiting and retries. Set OPENALEX_API_KEY in the environment; OpenAlex permits limited no-key requests.

Key Patterns

Search works

uv run --script "$OPENALEX" search-works "CRISPR" \
  --filter 'publication_year=>2020' --filter is_oa=true \
  --sort cited_by_count:desc

Resolve names before filtering

Names are ambiguous. Search for the entity, inspect candidate identifiers, affiliations, and topics, then filter by the selected OpenAlex ID:

uv run --script "$OPENALEX" search-works "Jennifer Doudna" --per-page 5
# Inspect candidates, then filter with the selected OpenAlex author ID:
uv run --script "$OPENALEX" search-works "CRISPR" \
  --filter authorships.author.id=A1969205032

Get entity by external ID

uv run --script "$OPENALEX" get-entity works \
  'https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2'
uv run --script "$OPENALEX" get-entity authors \
  'https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1613-5981'

Batch DOI lookup (up to 100 per request)

uv run --script "$OPENALEX" batch-lookup works \
  10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2 --id-field doi

Aggregate by field

uv run --script "$OPENALEX" group-by works publication_year \
  --filter authorships.author.id=A1969205032

Filter Syntax

Single:     --filter publication_year=2023
AND:        --filter 'publication_year=>2020' --filter is_oa=true
OR:         --filter 'type=journal-article|book'
NOT:        --filter 'type=!paratext'
Range:      --filter publication_year=2020-2024
Greater:    --filter 'cited_by_count=>100'
Both inst:  --filter authorships.institutions.id=ID1+ID2
Either:     --filter 'authorships.institutions.id=ID1|ID2'

Common filters: publication_year, is_oa, cited_by_count, type, authorships.author.id, authorships.institutions.id, primary_location.source.id, topics.id, has_doi.

Attribution

OpenAlex client adapted from K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills (MIT License).

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