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Domain knowledge for your AI assistant — workflow patterns, data model concepts, and gotchas for OpenAlex tools.

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Domain knowledge for using OpenAlex research catalog tools effectively

OpenAlex

OpenAlex is an open catalog of the global research system. Search works, retrieve work metadata, and expand citations using an open citation graph.

Data Model

  • Works — scholarly publications; search returns work IDs for detail and citation fetches.
  • Citations — works that cite a given work; scoped by work_id.

Gotchas

  • mailto: Including a contact email (mailto param) improves rate limits and service.

Use with OpenAlex Bundle

This skill teaches your AI assistant domain knowledge. To actually execute OpenAlex API calls, enable the MCP bundle — the skill and bundle work together.

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