paper-search

Search OpenAlex + arXiv and rank by impact relative to the paper's own field and age — not raw citation counts, which always favor old papers and always bury the work published last month. No API key, no auth.

scripts/paper_search.py "lost in the middle long context"        # topic search
scripts/paper_search.py "kv cache compression" --since 2025-06   # only recent work
scripts/paper_search.py "agent memory" --fresh 60                # + arXiv, last 60 days
scripts/paper_search.py --after arXiv:2307.03172 --about "position bias"  # what built on it
scripts/paper_search.py "raft consensus" --field any --limit 25  # non-CS, or wider
scripts/paper_search.py --selftest                               # offline; no network

--after takes arXiv:ID, DOI:x, or an OpenAlex Wxxx. --json for machine output; --help for all flags. Set OPENALEX_MAILTO=<your email> for OpenAlex's polite pool.

Reading the output