Openalex Database
Helps with AI, database as part of working with databases and data persistence workflows.
Install on your platform
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add k-dense-ai-openalex-database npx -- -y @trustedskills/k-dense-ai-openalex-database
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"k-dense-ai-openalex-database": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/k-dense-ai-openalex-database"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
This skill provides access to the OpenAlex database, a comprehensive and openly available catalog of academic publications, authors, institutions, and grants. It allows AI agents to retrieve information about researchers, their publications, funding sources, and connections within the scientific community. The data is structured and readily accessible for analysis and knowledge discovery tasks.
When to use it
- Researcher Profiling: Identify key contributors in a specific field by querying for authors with particular publication patterns or affiliations.
- Grant Analysis: Investigate funding trends and relationships between researchers and grant-awarding institutions.
- Citation Network Exploration: Discover publications citing a given work to understand its impact and influence within the academic landscape.
- Institutional Research Output: Analyze the research output of specific universities or research organizations.
Key capabilities
- Access to OpenAlex data on authors, publications, grants, and institutions.
- Structured query interface for retrieving specific information.
- Ability to explore relationships between researchers, publications, and funding sources.
Example prompts
- "Find all publications by Jane Doe affiliated with MIT."
- "What grants has John Smith received in the last 5 years?"
- "List institutions that have funded research on climate change."
Tips & gotchas
The OpenAlex database is vast, so be specific with your queries to avoid overwhelming results. Understanding common data fields and relationships within the database will improve query effectiveness.
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