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Literature Search Openalex

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Academic database queries for research papers, authors, and citation metrics.

What it does

Literature Search Openalex integrates your assistant with a massive repository of scholarly knowledge. It enables the retrieval of metadata for peer-reviewed works, institutional affiliations, and funding sources, allowing your assistant to perform data-driven literature reviews without leaving your workspace.

By handling identification and structured filtering, the skill removes the manual labor of locating specific papers or tracking citation counts. It processes queries for precise academic entities, such as locating author profiles or identifying papers by specific research topics.

When it earns its place

Reach for it when…

Install this when you need to gather lists of publications on a technical subject, verify DOI metadata, or extract bibliometric information like citation counts and impact metrics for specific authors or journals.

Look elsewhere when…

Do not rely on this for full-text synthesis or summarization of non-academic documents, nor for retrieving content behind paywalls that lack open-access links. It is not suitable for general web searches outside of the scholarly domain.

What to say to use it

You never invoke a skill directly — the assistant picks it up when your request matches what it covers. These are the kinds of things that do that.

  • find the most cited papers about large language models
  • get a list of recent publications by this researcher
  • can you download the open access pdf for this doi
  • what are the top institutions researching quantum computing

Install it

Install for all your projects

Copy the skill directory into your personal skills folder. Claude picks it up on its own the next time your request matches what it does — there is nothing to enable.

bash
git clone --depth 1 --branch main https://github.com/google-deepmind/science-skills.git /tmp/science-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/science-skills/skills/literature_search_openalex ~/.claude/skills/literature-search-openalex

Install for one project only

Put it in the project's own skills folder instead, so it can be committed and shared with everyone working on that repository.

bash
cp -r /tmp/science-skills/skills/literature_search_openalex .claude/skills/literature-search-openalex

If a skill of the same name exists in both places, the personal one wins.

Installing on Claude.ai or through the API instead? The full guide covers every surface.

Pair it with an MCP server

Literature Search Openalex changes how the work is done. These servers change what Claude can reach while doing it.

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