Query 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.
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Does it follow best practices?
Impact
81%
1.05xAverage score across 3 eval scenarios
Advisory
Suggest reviewing before use
Citation analysis with batch lookup
Email initialization
100%
100%
batch_lookup for DOIs
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100%
cited_by_api_url usage
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per-page=200 for citing papers
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0%
Scripts package import
100%
100%
results.json produced
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100%
select fields used
100%
0%
Mailto in citing request
100%
50%
analysis.py produced
100%
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Two-step entity lookup and filter operators
Email initialization
100%
100%
Two-step institution lookup
100%
100%
Pipe OR for combined output
100%
100%
Plus AND for collaboration
33%
100%
group_by for topics
100%
100%
per-page=200
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Publication year filter
100%
100%
Scripts package import
100%
100%
Output files written
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Publication trends and reproducible sampling
Email initialization
100%
100%
sample_works() used
100%
33%
Fixed seed provided
100%
100%
get_publication_trends used
100%
100%
OA trend comparison
100%
100%
select fields for sample
0%
100%
Scripts package import
100%
100%
trends.json written
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100%
sample.json written
100%
100%
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