openalex-database SKILL.md skillA
openalex-database from jaechang-hits/sciagent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jaechang-hits/sciagent-skills/openalex-database@git:20260522.6a6fd41Pins git:20260522.6a6fd41 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jaechang-hits/sciagent-skills
- Path
skills/scientific-writing/openalex-database/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260522.6a6fd41, committed May 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 18, 2026
- Size
- 19,206 bytes
- Repository stars
- 381
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Query OpenAlex REST API for 250M+ scholarly works, authors, institutions, journals, concepts. Search by keyword, author, DOI, ORCID, or ID; filter by year, OA, citations, field; retrieve citations, references, author disambiguation. Free, no auth. For PubMed use pubmed-database; preprints use biorxiv-database.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# OpenAlex Scholarly Database ## Overview OpenAlex is a free, open-access index of 250M+ scholarly works, 90M+ authors, 110,000+ journals, and 10,000+ institutions. It succeeds Microsoft Academic Graph and provides rich metadata: abstracts, open-access URLs, citation counts, referenced works, author disambiguated IDs (ORCID), and concept tags. The REST API requires no authentication for up to 100,000 requests/day; a polite pool (email parameter) gives priority processing. ## When to Use - Building systematic literature review corpora by searching across all academic disciplines (not just biomedical) - Retrieving citation networks for bibliometric analysis, co-citation clustering, or reference graph traversal - Disambiguating author identities across institutions using ORCID/OpenAlex author IDs - Finding open-access full-text URLs for a set of DOIs to build downloadable paper corpora - Analyzing publication trends by year, institution, country, or research concept - Enriching a paper list with metadata (citation count, abstract, venue) from DOIs or titles - For PubMed-indexed biomedical literature use `pubmed-database`; for bioRxiv preprints use `biorxiv-database` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jaechang-hits/sciagent-skills/openalex-database@sha256:dd627b0acd72f8d9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260522.6a6fd41, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_tt72vq64f5zr6nbz)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Feb 18, 2026 and May 22, 2026, about one every 46 days.
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| git:20260522.6a6fd41 latest | 2026-05-22 | 6a6fd41 | 19,206 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260428.81ea2d2 | 2026-04-28 | 81ea2d2 | 18,880 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260218.8df1694 | 2026-02-18 | 8df1694 | 19,001 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (19206 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
jaechang-hits/sciagent-skills · 381 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tt72vq64f5zr6nbz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jaechang-hits/sciagent-skills/openalex-database GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dd627b0acd72f8d9f641b85e38547074a921ca05f3da4ec9b839595077dc4b04
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