openalex-database - Query scholarly works with OpenAlex
Query the OpenAlex REST API for scholarly works, authors, institutions, venues, concepts, citations, references, and open-access metadata.
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Updated: 2026-10-05Capabilities
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What this skill does
- Search scholarly works
- Retrieve work metadata
- Find author records
- Resolve ORCID identities
- Traverse citation networks
- Filter by research concepts
- Analyze publication trends
- Query institutions and venues
Inputs
- Search terms
- DOIs
- OpenAlex Work IDs
- Author names
- ORCID IDs
- Filter criteria
Outputs
- Scholarly work metadata
- Author records
- Citation and reference lists
- Publication trend data
- Open-access URLs
- Institution and venue results
Requirements
- Internet connection
- Python
- requests package
- pandas package
- No API key