OpenAlex Database

by LeonChaoX

OpenAlex Database is a Data skill for Claude Code, published by LeonChaoX in qinyan-academic-skills.

814 stars68 forkson LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skillsAdded 2026/08/22Repository updated 2026/07/20

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Install OpenAlex Database

Copy OpenAlex Database into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit 'https://github.com/LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills/tree/main/skills/01-%E8%AE%BA%E6%96%87%E6%A3%80%E7%B4%A2%E4%B8%8E%E6%96%87%E7%8C%AE%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86/openalex-database' ~/.claude/skills/openalex-database

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/01-论文检索与文献管理/openalex-database/SKILL.md in LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/openalex-database
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Data — 668 skills

What OpenAlex Database does

OpenAlex Database queries OpenAlex to search papers, find authors or institutions, track citations, and analyze publication trends. Use it for literature reviews, bibliometrics, and open access discovery across scholarly works.

OpenAlex Database is cataloged under Data on DirSkills. OpenAlex Database comes from a repository tagged academic, ai-assistant, arxiv, claude-code and google-scholar.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

OpenAlex Database

Overview

OpenAlex is a comprehensive open catalog of 240M+ scholarly works, authors, institutions, topics, sources, publishers, and funders. This skill provides tools and workflows for querying the OpenAlex API to search literature, analyze research output, track citations, and conduct bibliometric studies.

Quick Start

Basic Setup

Always initialize the client with an email address to access the polite pool (10x rate limit boost):

from scripts.openalex_client import OpenAlexClient

client = OpenAlexClient(email="your-email@example.edu")

Installation Requirements

Install required package using uv:

uv pip install requests

No API key required - OpenAlex is completely open.

Core Capabilities

1. Search for Papers

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about OpenAlex Database

What else does LeonChaoX publish alongside OpenAlex Database?
OpenAlex Database is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include BGPT Paper Search, Citation Management and Generate Image. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way OpenAlex Database does, and is maintained by LeonChaoX in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills page.
How does OpenAlex Database compare to other Data skills?
OpenAlex Database ranks #508 by stars among the 668 Data skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark Methodology, Jupyter Notebook and Solana. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of OpenAlex Database against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.