Academic Research

Search 250M+ academic works via OpenAlex. No API key required.

Built by Topanga — AI Research Consultant

Quick Start

Search papers by topic

Search by author

Look up by DOI

Get citation chain (papers that cite a work)

Deep read (fetch abstract + full text when available)

JSON output for programmatic use

Literature Review Workflow

Automated multi-step literature review:

CODEBLOCK6

This will:

1. 1. Search for papers across multiple query variations
2. Deduplicate and rank by relevance + citations
3. Identify thematic clusters
4. Generate a structured synthesis in markdown

Options:

• - --papers N — Target number of papers (default: 20)
• INLINECODE1 — Write review to file (default: stdout)
• INLINECODE2 — Restrict publication year range
• INLINECODE3 — Output structured JSON instead of markdown

Output Format

All search commands return structured data per paper:

• - Title and publication year
• Authors (up to 5)
• Abstract (when available)
• Citation count
• DOI
• Open access URL (when available)
• Source journal/venue

Tips

• - OpenAlex sorts by relevance by default; use --sort citations for most-cited
• Combine search + deep for quick triage: search first, deep-read promising hits
• The literature review script caches results in /tmp/litreview_cache/ to avoid re-fetching
• For full-text PDFs, pipe DOIs to your PDF extraction tool