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Query academic papers by keyword or retrieve details by DOI or OpenAlex ID directly from your terminal using the OpenAlex API. Fetch titles, authors, citations, abstracts, and open access links, with pagination and sorting to streamline research discovery and citation gathering.
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paper-search
A Claude Code plugin and skill for searching academic papers via the OpenAlex API.
Install as Claude Code Plugin
claude plugin marketplace add ykdojo/paper-search
claude plugin install paper-search@paper-search
After installing, the paper-search skill is available automatically. Just ask Claude Code to search for papers and it will use the skill.
Requirements
curl,jq
Usage
# Search for papers (sorted by relevance by default)
scripts/search.sh "mindfulness meditation stress reduction" 10
# Sort by citation count
scripts/search.sh "mindfulness meditation stress reduction" 10 cites
# Sort by publication date
scripts/search.sh "mindfulness meditation stress reduction" 10 date
# Page 2 of results
scripts/search.sh "mindfulness meditation stress reduction" 10 relevance 2
# Get 25 results per page
scripts/search.sh "mindfulness meditation stress reduction" 25
# Look up a specific paper by DOI
scripts/paper.sh "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407162101"
# Look up by OpenAlex ID
scripts/paper.sh W2097529540
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Uses OpenAlex — free, open, no API key required. 250M+ works indexed.
Initially introduced in 45 Claude Code Tips (Tip 27).
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Version0.1.0
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LicenseMIT
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