openalex
Use when the user asks about academic literature, research papers, scholarly works, authors, citations, institutions, journals, or any academic metadata. Trigger when users want to search for papers, find author profiles, track citations, discover related works, or explore academic topics. Also use when users mention DOIs, ORCIDs, h-index, publication venues, or research metrics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill openalex --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# OpenAlex CLI Skill Use the `openalex` CLI to retrieve academic metadata from the OpenAlex API. ## When to Use Invoke this skill when the user needs to: - Search for academic papers or scholarly works - Find information about authors, institutions, or journals - Track citations (who cited a paper, what a paper references) - Discover related works or research topics - Look up metadata by DOI, ORCI
What does the openalex skill do?
Use when the user asks about academic literature, research papers, scholarly works, authors, citations, institutions, journals, or any academic metadata. Trigger when users want to search for papers, find author profiles, track citations, discover related works, or explore academic topics. Also use when users mention DOIs, ORCIDs, h-index, publication venues, or research metrics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill openalex --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, a repository with 3,244 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.