Alterlab Openalex
Skill Verified ActiveQuery and analyze scholarly literature using the OpenAlex database. This skill should be used when searching for academic papers, analyzing research trends, finding works by authors or institutions, tracking citations, discovering open access publications, or conducting bibliometric analysis across 240M+ scholarly works. Use for literature searches, research output analysis, citation analysis, and academic database queries. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
To enable researchers and academics to efficiently query and analyze the vast OpenAlex database of scholarly literature for research, trend analysis, and bibliometric studies.
Features
- Query scholarly literature using OpenAlex API
- Search for papers by title, abstract, or topic
- Find works by author or institution
- Analyze publication trends and research output
- Discover open access publications
- Conduct citation analysis and bibliometric studies
- Support for batch lookups and random sampling
- Robust error handling, rate limiting, and pagination
Use Cases
- Systematically searching for academic papers on a specific topic.
- Identifying influential works by key researchers or institutions.
- Tracking the evolution of research fields over time.
- Finding open access research for broader dissemination.
Non-Goals
- Providing direct LLM-based interpretation of paper content (focus is on metadata retrieval and analysis).
- Replacing dedicated reference management tools (though data can be exported).
- Conducting primary research or generating novel scientific hypotheses directly.
Installation
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-SkillsRuns the Vercel skills CLI (skills.sh) via npx — needs Node.js locally and at least one installed skills-compatible agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, …). Assumes the repo follows the agentskills.io format.
Quality Score
VerifiedTrust Signals
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