alterlab-openalex
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Query and analyze scholarly literature using the OpenAlex API across 300M+ works, retrieving papers, authors, institutions, citations, and open access status. Use when searching academic papers, tracking citations, finding works by author or institution, analyzing research trends, discovering open access publications, or running bibliometric analysis. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
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npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-openalex -a claude-code
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