scholar-citations

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides a fast, structured way to discover a paper's intellectual ancestry and descendants by fetching its references and citations from the OpenAlex Graph API, removing the manual work of querying disparate indexes and reconstructing abstracts.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Bidirectional citation traversal: retrieve both references (what the paper cites) and citations (what cites the paper).
• Flexible identifiers: accepts OpenAlex W-ids, DOIs, arXiv IDs, PMIDs, and OpenAlex/DOI URLs with automatic normalization.
• Filtering and ordering: supports limits, minimum publication year, and minimum citation count to surface high-signal follow-ups or key predecessors.
• Use Case: identify the key prior work a manuscript builds on, or find influential follow-ups for literature reviews and reviewer context.

Quick Start

Fetch citations for paper 2501.11120 and return up to 50 citing papers from 2024 onward with at least 10 citations.