openalex-paper-search

To search academic literature for a literature review, query the OpenAlex catalog of 240M+ works using keyword and field searches. You can apply complex filters for year, citation count, and open access status to refine results without manually crawling multiple repositories.

Yes, you can find highly cited papers and traverse citation graphs using REST API queries. The Skill supports citation graph traversal to identify seminal papers and recent follow-ups by sorting results based on citation count and inspecting references.

Academic search with OpenAlex benefits from including a mailto parameter in your REST API queries. Including it ensures polite rate limits are applied, allowing smoother retrieval when filtering works by author, institution, or publication year.

The best way to filter open access papers is to combine OpenAlex REST API filters for author, institution, and open access status. This precise filtering and sorting capability helps build authoritative author publication lists efficiently.

Yes, you can use citation analysis to map related work for research grounding. By traversing references and citations across the OpenAlex catalog, you can identify seminal papers and recent follow-ups to ground your research and build comprehensive literature reviews.