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Openalex Database

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microck·vlatest·database

Access and query Microck's OpenAlex-derived database of academic publications, authors, and institutions for research insights.

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Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add microck/ordinary-claude-skills --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

microck

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Install target

Live repository

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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

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This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • 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 undeclared network calls: passed

    Only contacts known or declared hosts: github.com.

    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

    github.comsource host

  • 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 microck/ordinary-claude-skills at 1056d293d4.

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

Commit
1056d293d4
Manifest
skills_all/openalex-database/SKILL.md
Scanned
4 files, 894 lines
Copies in repo
3 — all of them scanned
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About this skill

What it does

This skill provides access to the OpenAlex database, a comprehensive dataset of academic publications and researchers. It allows agents to query this data for information like publication counts, author affiliations, research topics, and more. The database is designed as an open alternative to Scopus and Web of Science.

When to use it

  • Literature Review: Quickly identify key papers and authors in a specific field of study.
  • Research Trend Analysis: Discover emerging trends by analyzing publication patterns over time.
  • Author Profiling: Gather information about an author's publications, collaborations, and research interests.
  • Institutional Research Output: Determine the research output of a particular university or institution.

Key capabilities

  • Access to OpenAlex database data
  • Querying for publication counts
  • Retrieving author affiliations
  • Identifying research topics
  • Analyzing publication patterns

Example prompts

  • "How many publications does John Smith have in the field of machine learning?"
  • "What are the top 5 institutions publishing on climate change?"
  • "List all authors affiliated with Stanford University who have published on quantum computing."

Tips & gotchas

The OpenAlex database is large, so queries may take time to process. Be specific in your prompts to narrow down results and improve efficiency.