scholar-search

Search scholarly papers across journals and conferences using OpenAlex without an API key. This Skill queries api.openalex.org to return structured metadata including citations, abstracts, venues, and external IDs like arXiv or DOI.

Yes, you can filter OpenAlex literature reviews by year, venue, concepts, and open-access status. This allows targeted topic discovery and rapid screening across disciplines to build shortlists for deeper analysis.

OpenAlex literature reviews retrieve comprehensive metadata for each result, including title, authors, year, venue, citation count, reconstructed abstracts, and external IDs such as arXiv, DOI, and PMID.

No, this OpenAlex paper search requires only Python 3.11+ and the standard library. It needs internet access to api.openalex.org but requires no external dependencies or API key to fetch structured scholarly works.

The best way to find open access papers and conference proceedings for cross-disciplinary inquiries is searching via OpenAlex. It covers journals, books, and arXiv, returning structured results with citation counts and reconstructed abstracts.

OpenAlex scholarly search returns reconstructed abstracts because the API provides abstracts in an inverted index format. The Skill reconstructs this data to provide readable text alongside titles, authors, venues, and external IDs.