paper-search
About
This Claude Skill enables developers to search a vast academic database (OpenAlex) for papers by keyword or fetch specific papers by DOI/ID. It returns detailed metadata like title, authors, abstract, and citation counts through simple shell scripts. Use it to quickly integrate academic paper lookup into your development workflow without needing an API key.
Quick Install
Claude Code
Recommendednpx skills add ykdojo/paper-search -a claude-code/plugin add https://github.com/ykdojo/paper-searchgit clone https://github.com/ykdojo/paper-search.git ~/.claude/skills/paper-searchCopy and paste this command in Claude Code to install this skill
Documentation
Search for academic papers and get details including title, authors, citation count, DOI, abstract, and open access links.
Steps:
- Find the scripts directory:
find ~/.claude -name "search.sh" -path "*/paper-search/*" 2>/dev/null | sort -V | tail -1- This finds the script whether installed via plugin or manual setup
- The
paper.shscript is in the same directory
- To search for papers by keyword:
<scripts-dir>/search.sh "your search query" [limit] [sort] [page]limit: number of results per page (default: 10, max: 200)sort:relevance(default),cites, ordatepage: page number for pagination (default: 1)
- To look up a specific paper by DOI or OpenAlex ID:
<scripts-dir>/paper.sh <DOI_URL or OpenAlex_ID>- Accepts full DOI URLs like
https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci8020020 - Or OpenAlex IDs like
W2789811475 - Returns full details: authors, abstract, concepts, open access PDF link, related works
- Accepts full DOI URLs like
Tips:
- Use
relevancesort (default) for topical searches. Useciteswhen you want landmark papers. - Be specific with queries — "bilingual cognitive advantages executive function" beats "bilingualism brain".
- Use
paper.shto get the full abstract when search results show "Abstract: N/A". - The
related_worksIDs frompaper.shcan be fed back intopaper.shto explore the citation graph. - When the user asks for scientific backing: search broadly first, pick the most relevant/cited papers, then use
paper.shfor full details and cite as (Author, Year, Journal).
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