Paper Search — Development skill for Claude Code
Search academic papers via OpenAlex (250M+ works, free, no API key needed).
How to install Paper Search
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open ykdojo/paper-search and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Paper Search does
A Claude Code plugin and skill for searching academic papers via the [OpenAlex API](https://docs.openalex.org/).
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README
paper-search
A Claude Code plugin and skill for searching academic papers via the [OpenAlex API](https://docs.openalex.org/).
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
API
Uses [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/) — free, open, no API key required. 250M+ works indexed.
Initially introduced in [45 Claude Code Tips](https://github.com/ykdojo/claude-code-tips) (Tip 27).
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