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Paper Search — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community intermediate

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