OpenAlex Database

Overview

OpenAlex is a comprehensive open catalog of 300M+ scholarly works (the default "core" corpus; corpus=all adds roughly 60% more, mostly datasets and repository records), authors, institutions, topics, sources, publishers, and funders. This skill provides tools and workflows for querying the OpenAlex API to search literature, analyze research output, track citations, and conduct bibliometric studies.

When to Use This Skill

• Searching the scholarly literature across all disciplines (keyword, semantic, or filtered by year, OA status, type)
• Finding works by an author, institution, funder, or source via their OpenAlex/ORCID/ROR/ISSN IDs
• Citation counts, citing works, and bibliometric or trend analysis (group_by aggregations)
• Checking open-access status and locations of papers, or batch-resolving DOIs to metadata

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