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title: "OpenAlex Academic Search - Air Market"
description: "Sometimes the paper itself is not the question - you want to know who cited it, where the authors work, or who paid for the research. This searches OpenAlex, which carries that kind of metadata. Reac…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/openalex"
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[Air Market](/) / [Research](/category/research) / OpenAlex Academic Search

Skill by [Yang Ruofeng](/@wanshuiyin)

# OpenAlex Academic Search

Follow citations, institutions and funding through open scholarly data

## What this does

Sometimes the paper itself is not the question - you want to know who cited it, where the authors work, or who paid for the research. This searches OpenAlex, which carries that kind of metadata. Reach for it when arXiv or Semantic Scholar does not go deep enough on the surrounding detail.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Search papers with open citation data
- See which institutions a paper's authors belong to
- Find who funded a piece of work

## Information

**OpenAlex Academic Search at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Yang Ruofeng](/@wanshuiyin) |
| Category | [Research](/category/research) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 9 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [wanshuiyin/auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep](https://github.com/wanshuiyin/auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/tree/c5f3d5bfc694a812012729841e9697223e4f2130/skills/skills-codex/openalex) |
| GitHub stars | 15,082 (as of Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of OpenAlex Academic Search and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What OpenAlex Academic Search's check was run against**

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| --- | --- |
| Commit | c5f3d5bfc694a812012729841e9697223e4f2130 |
| Content hash | f3218e1d3a2bdaafc69692459404b760f0c812bbb8fc15ea42ebbbd53d4a4c32 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/wanshuiyin/auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/blob/c5f3d5bfc694a812012729841e9697223e4f2130/skills/skills-codex/openalex/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for OpenAlex Academic Search](/security/openalex)

## About OpenAlex Academic Search

Scholarly work carries a lot of context around it: who cited whom, which institutions were involved, where the money came from. Most paper searches do not surface it.

This searches academic papers through the OpenAlex API, bringing back open citation data, institutional affiliations and funding information.

It is for the moment when you want comprehensive academic metadata beyond what arXiv or Semantic Scholar gives you, or when you are working through an open citation graph.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is OpenAlex Academic Search safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of OpenAlex Academic Search and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit c5f3d5bfc694, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/openalex.

### How do I install OpenAlex Academic Search?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/openalex on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/wanshuiyin/auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/tree/c5f3d5bfc694a812012729841e9697223e4f2130/skills/skills-codex/openalex. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Research listings](/category/research)
- [Everything by Yang Ruofeng](/@wanshuiyin)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/openalex>