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OpenAlex

By Casey Hand

Search the OpenAlex catalog of scholarly works, authors, institutions and topics, count publication trends, and follow citations. Free, no account.

Build prompt

Build the connector at https://tendle.ai/connectors/openalex.
  1. 01Open your agent and start a new chat.
  2. 02Paste the prompt and send it. Your agent builds the connector.

Tools

What your agent can do once the connector is built. Names are the server’s own.

  • openalex_resolve_nameResolve a name or an identifier to an OpenAlex ID. ALWAYS use this before filtering by entity — names are ambiguous, IDs are not. A name returns up to 10 autocomplete matches with disambiguation hints
  • openalex_search_entitiesSearch, filter, sort, or retrieve by ID. Covers all OpenAlex entity types (works, authors, sources, institutions, topics, keywords, publishers, funders). Pass `id` to retrieve a single entity. Otherwi
  • openalex_analyze_trendsAggregate OpenAlex entities into groups and count them. Use for trend analysis (group works by publication_year), distribution analysis (group by oa_status, type, country), and comparative analysis (g
  • openalex_get_citation_graphWalk the citation graph one hop from a seed work. Direction picks the edge: incoming citations (`cites`), the seed's own references (`cited_by`), or OpenAlex's algorithmically-related works (`related_
  • openalex_describe_fieldsList valid field names for an OpenAlex entity type and context (filter, group_by, or select). Use proactively before constructing a filter or group_by to avoid invalid-field 400 errors. Pass `query` t