What problem does it solve? Imported or snowballed reference records often arrive with missing authors, DOIs, venues, URLs, or abstracts, and fixing them by hand across hundreds of papers is impractical. This Skill queries the OpenAlex open scholarly catalog (~250M works) to backfill and normalize bibliographic records at scale, with on-disk caching so repeated lookups are free. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Metadata enrichment: Normalize works by DOI, arXiv id, OpenAlex id, PMID, or title into clean records with authors, venue, date, type, URL, and citation counts via the enrich command. - Abstract recovery: Reconstruct readable abstracts from OpenAlex's inverted-index format, covering preprints and works where other sources have no abstract. - Citation traversal: List works that cite a paper (forward) or the works it references (backward) for snowballing searches. - Use Case: Pipe a list of DOIs from thin Zotero or Semantic Scholar records into enrich, receive normalized JSON records, and PATCH the missing fields back into your reference library. ## Quick Start Ask Claude to backfill missing authors, DOIs, and abstracts for the DOIs in your reference list using OpenAlex.
