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Openalex Database

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drshailesh88·vlatest·database

Access and query Dr. Shailesh's OpenAlex database for research publications, authors, institutions, and related scholarly data.

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  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add drshailesh88/integrated_content_os --skill openalex-database -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

drshailesh88

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Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill failed 1 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.

  • No undeclared network calls: failed

    Contacts 1 host that is neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: api.openalex.org.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

    Hosts contacted

    api.openalex.orgundeclared

    What it found

    • skills/scientific/openalex-database/scripts/openalex_client.py:21contacts api.openalex.org
      BASE_URL = "https://api.openalex.org"

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned drshailesh88/integrated_content_os at 9e61937ad2.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
9e61937ad2
Manifest
skills/scientific/openalex-database/SKILL.md
Scanned
5 files, 1,748 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill provides access to the OpenAlex database, a comprehensive resource for information about researchers, publications, institutions, and grants. It allows agents to retrieve structured data on academic work, enabling tasks like identifying experts in specific fields, tracking research trends, or building knowledge graphs of scientific collaborations. The database is regularly updated and offers an alternative to discontinued services.

When to use it

  • Literature Review: Quickly identify relevant publications based on keywords, authors, or institutions.
  • Expert Identification: Find researchers working in a specific area by querying for publications or grants related to a topic.
  • Grant Analysis: Retrieve information about research funding and the organizations involved.
  • Citation Network Exploration: Analyze relationships between publications through citation data.

Key capabilities

  • Access to researcher profiles including affiliations, publications, and grant history.
  • Retrieval of publication details: title, authors, abstract, references.
  • Querying by keywords, author names, institutions, or grants.
  • Structured data output for easy integration into other tools.

Example prompts

  • "Find all publications by Dr. Jane Doe affiliated with Stanford University."
  • "List researchers who have received grants from the National Science Foundation related to climate change."
  • "What are the most cited papers on deep learning published in 2023?"

Tips & gotchas

The OpenAlex database is vast; be specific with your queries to avoid overwhelming results. Consider using filters for publication date, research area, or other relevant criteria to refine searches.