Connect OpenAlex to Your AI Agent

Describe your research question and ask AI for a shortlist grounded in publication metadata and source links.

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Try a OpenAlex Task

Copy a prompt into your agent with the oo Skill installed. Add your page links and source notes before running it.

oo Skill OpenAlex

Find papers on a topic

Search works within a publication period and compare the available bibliographic data.

/oo OpenAlex: Search OpenAlex works about [research topic] published from [year] to [year]. List titles, authors, publication years, citation counts, and source links, and identify relevant papers from this metadata.

Start Working with OpenAlex

  1. Install OOMOL

    Set up oo CLI and the oo Skill in your agent.

    Install OOMOL →
  2. Connect OpenAlex

    Connect an OpenAlex API key from the API authentication settings.

    Connect OpenAlex →
  3. Give Your Agent a Task

    Use /oo with the pages to read, the changes to make, and where to save the result.

    Connection Guide →

Choose Your Agent

  • An OpenAlex API key.

OpenAlex Tools

The integration searches works and other scholarly entities, reads individual records, groups results, and supplies autocomplete suggestions. It retrieves scholarly records rather than downloading article full text.

Scholarly search and records

Search or group scholarly entities and retrieve individual work or entity records.

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List Entities

List, search, filter, page, or group OpenAlex entities from the supported collections.

openalex.list_entities

List Works

List, search, filter, page, or group OpenAlex works with work-focused normalized fields.

openalex.list_works

Get Entity

Get one OpenAlex entity by identifier from a supported collection.

openalex.get_entity

Get Work

Get one OpenAlex work by identifier.

openalex.get_work

Autocomplete

Return OpenAlex autocomplete suggestions for a search string.

openalex.autocomplete

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I restrict a literature search?

Yes. Describe the publication years and other criteria, and choose an ordering such as citation count or publication date.

How do I inspect a particular paper?

Provide its OpenAlex work ID or OpenAlex URL. The work record contains bibliographic details and available links.

Can the results be summarized by year?

Yes. Results can be grouped by publication year or another available grouping field.

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