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openalex-database
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skillsSkill
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.
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 967 stars are split between them (about 97 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 54/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit df5a498a81e0, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
What its code does:
- Makes network requestsSKILL.md, scripts/openalex_client.py:73
Web addresses in its code:
- api.openalex.orgscripts/openalex_client.py:21
These are the sites named in the code, so it's where your data could go. It isn't a complete list: code can build addresses while it runs, and a few of these may be links rather than calls. Whatever you send also goes to the AI model you use.
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