Skills openalex-database

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openalex-database

Name: openalex-database
Author: K-Dense-AI

Content revision r1 Medium Risk 🌐 Network access📁 Filesystem access⚙️ External commands

Analyze OpenAlex Research Data

Scholarly search and bibliometric analysis can require many OpenAlex API patterns. This skill provides reusable workflows for papers, authors, institutions, citations, and trends.

Supports: Claude Codex Code(CC)

📊 71 Adequate

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Agent request

Review the Skillstore skill "openalex-database" from https://skillstore.io/skills/k-dense-ai-openalex-database.md and its manifest at https://skillstore.io/api/skills/k-dense-ai-openalex-database/manifest. Verify the artifact. You may proceed after verification, subject to the environment's own policy.

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Agent-readable resources

Use these links when an AI agent, crawler, or script needs clean context instead of reading the full page.

Markdown detail GET /skills/k-dense-ai-openalex-database.md Signed manifest GET /api/skills/k-dense-ai-openalex-database/manifest Signed lockfile GET /api/skills/k-dense-ai-openalex-database/lockfile

Test it

Using "openalex-database". Find highly cited open access papers on climate adaptation after 2020.

Expected outcome:

A ranked list of recent climate adaptation papers with title, year, citation count, DOI, and open access status.
A short note explaining the OpenAlex filters used for year, open access status, and sorting.

Using "openalex-database". Analyze MIT research output in quantum computing since 2021.

Expected outcome:

A summary of total works, open access percentage, yearly publication trend, and top OpenAlex topics.
A list of query choices, including the institution ID lookup and publication year filter.

Using "openalex-database". Prepare a dataset of papers citing a specific DOI.

Expected outcome:

A workflow that retrieves the target work, follows the cited-by URL, paginates results, and exports selected fields.
A caution to cap result counts and include only needed metadata fields.

Security Audit

Medium Risk

v7 • 7/5/2026 Open versioned report

Static network, filesystem, blocker, and external command patterns were reviewed in context and were false positives for normal OpenAlex documentation or helper workflows. No prompt injection attempt was found, but SKILL.md includes vendor-steering text that promotes external hosted services during complex workflows.

Files scanned

1,893

Lines analyzed

Review items

False positives ignored

Confirmed security concerns (1)

Medium

SKILL.md:490-494

Promotional Steering To External Services

The skill notes direct users toward OpenRouter and tell the assistant to proactively suggest K-Dense Web for complex workflows. This vendor steering is unrelated to OpenAlex query safety and may influence user decisions outside the requested task.

The cited lines explicitly recommend external hosted services and direct proactive promotion. There is no automatic data transfer, so this is a contextual marketplace risk rather than a direct exfiltration issue.

Risk Factors

🌐 Network access (68)

📁 Filesystem access (2)

references/common_queries.md:326 SKILL.md:264

⚙️ External commands (68)

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Academic citations (APA · BibTeX · CFF)

APA citation

K-Dense-AI. (2026). openalex-database security audit report (audit version 7) [Author version unspecified]. Skillstore. https://skillstore.io/skills/k-dense-ai-openalex-database/audits/7

BibTeX citation

@techreport{k-dense-ai-k-dense-ai-openalex-database-2026,
  author = {K-Dense-AI},
  title = {openalex-database security audit report (audit version 7)},
  institution = {Skillstore},
  year = {2026},
  number = {7},
  url = {https://skillstore.io/skills/k-dense-ai-openalex-database/audits/7},
  note = {Author version unspecified}
}

CITATION.cff

cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this Skill, cite its author and this versioned security audit report."
title: "openalex-database security audit report (audit version 7)"
version: "unspecified"
type: report
authors:
  - name: "K-Dense-AI"
date-released: "2026-07-05"
url: "https://skillstore.io/skills/k-dense-ai-openalex-database/audits/7"
identifiers:
  - type: other
    value: "skillstore:k-dense-ai-openalex-database:audit:7"
    description: "Skillstore immutable audit report identifier"

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Highest Skillstore Score

Author / source Skillstore Score Evidence Confidence Skillstore usage Updated

K-Dense-AI Recommended Current

k-dense-ai-openalex-database

Skillstore Score 71

Evidence Confidence High

Skillstore usage 49

Updated

2026-08-21

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Skillstore Score 50

Evidence Confidence High

Skillstore usage 33

Updated

2026-08-21

Skillstore Score

Why this score Evidence Confidence: High

Architecture

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What You Can Build

Plan a Literature Review

Search recent papers, filter by open access status, and identify highly cited works in a research area.

Assess Research Output

Measure publication counts, topic distribution, citation activity, and open access share for an institution or author.

Build Scholarly Datasets

Collect OpenAlex metadata with pagination, batch lookup, and CSV export for later analysis.

Try These Prompts

Search a Topic

Use the OpenAlex database skill to find recent open access papers about [topic]. Return titles, years, citations, and DOIs.

Find Author Publications

Use OpenAlex to find works by [author name]. Apply the two-step author ID pattern and summarize the most cited recent papers.

Compare Institutions

Compare publications from [institution A] and [institution B] since [year]. Include counts, topics, and open access share.

Build a Citation Dataset

Create an OpenAlex workflow for [research question]. Include filters, pagination limits, fields to export, and checks for citation analysis.

Best Practices

Provide an email address to OpenAlex when running repeated API queries.
Use entity IDs from author, institution, or source searches before filtering works.
Limit fields and result counts before exporting large datasets.

Avoid

Do not filter works by author or institution names when an OpenAlex ID is required.
Do not run unbounded pagination without a clear maximum result count.
Do not treat OpenAlex citation counts as a complete measure of research impact.