Summary
This gives you structured access to OpenAlex's 240 million scholarly works for literature searches, citation analysis, and bibliometric research. The two-step lookup pattern is critical: search by name to get IDs, then filter by those IDs, because OpenAlex won't let you filter by entity names directly. The polite pool email parameter gets you 10x the rate limit, and batch lookups can handle up to 50 DOIs in a single request. Most useful for systematic literature reviews, tracking institutional research output, finding highly cited papers in a field, or pulling large datasets for analysis. The random sampling function handles the complexity of getting truly random samples beyond the 10k cursor limit.
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Keeps your Mac awake while Claude Code, Codex or Cursor works. Lets it sleep when they are done.
Try free for 7 days →Block distracting apps from your iPhone permanently without a 3rd party app. Free and open source.
Block now (100% free) →Notes, actions and memory. Without a meeting bot. First month 100% off.
Download for free →belt cli automatically finds the best tools and skills for your agent. image, video, music, tts...
one prompt install →Free an open-source skills that make AI coding agents easier to understand, verify, and control.
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