scholar-search
Scholar Search
Search OpenAlex — an open catalog of 250M+ scholarly works — for papers across every major venue (not just arXiv). Returns structured JSON including citation counts, venue, reconstructed abstracts, and external IDs linking to arXiv / DOI / PubMed.
Why OpenAlex (not Semantic Scholar)
Both cover roughly the same data. OpenAlex wins on:
- No API key required. The free public endpoint just works.
- Generous rate limits. 10 req/sec anonymous, higher in the polite pool.
- Actually usable at scale. Semantic Scholar's public tier is shared and 429s are constant.
Why this over arxiv-search
| arxiv-search | scholar-search | |
|---|---|---|
| Preprints | yes | yes |
| Conferences (ICLR, NeurIPS, ACL, ...) | no | yes |
| Journals | no | yes |
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scholar-citations
Fetch the citation graph for a research paper via OpenAlex. Returns the papers it cites (references - what preceded it) and the papers that cite it (citations - what built on it). Accepts OpenAlex work ID, DOI, arXiv ID, PMID, or OpenAlex/DOI URL. No API key required. Use when the user says "what does this paper cite", "who cites this paper", "references of", "citation graph", "papers that built on", or "trace this idea backward/forward".
9literature-review
Orchestrate a two-pass literature review for a research question. Phase 1 casts a wide net via scholar-search (and optionally arxiv-search), phase 2 the agent screens candidates by title+abstract, phase 3 the shortlist gets full-text analysis, phase 4 the agent writes a structured synthesis. Persistent session state lives in ./literature-reviews/<slug>/. Use when the user says "literature review", "survey the field", "research question", "what does the literature say about", or "systematic search".
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