literature-search-openalex

You can query the OpenAlex database programmatically by using this skill to retrieve research papers, author profiles, and institutional data through complex filtering and bibliometric aggregation.

Yes, automated PDF retrieval is supported during a literature search to fetch available open-access PDFs, streamlining academic research workflows and literature reviews.

You can calculate bibliometric aggregations like h-index and citation counts by querying the OpenAlex scholarly database to aggregate impact factors and citation data for research evaluation.

Yes, you need the polite-http and python-dotenv libraries to manage API interactions and environment configurations when searching scholarly research papers through OpenAlex.

The best way to filter an author's top-cited works is to resolve their name to a unique ID, apply citation count filters in descending order, and restrict the publication date to recent years.

Filtering research topics in OpenAlex is limited by the API's query capabilities and requires proper environment configuration using python-dotenv to manage API interactions reliably.