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Cortexa connector·literature
OpenAlex
OpenAlex: the universal scholarly-works catalog. 260M+ papers across every discipline with citation counts, open-access metadata, and concept tags. Use as the FIRST-CHOICE literature source for any question that isn't obviously biomedical, especially CS/ML, physics, chemistry, earth sciences, social sciences, economics, or humanities.
Status
The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.
- Last probed
- 1d ago
- Last success
- 1d ago
- Last latency
- 1271ms
Schema
JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"query": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 500,
"description": "The search query. Prefer specific terms (gene symbols, drug names, condition keywords) over full questions."
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 15,
"default": 5,
"description": "Max results to return. Default 5."
}
},
"required": [
"query"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}Examples (1)
Search OpenAlex
public-safeinput
{
"query": "CRISPR base editing",
"limit": 3
}Expected response keys: count, results, source
Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.
Identifiers
- Catalog ID
- search_openalex
- Source ID
- openalex
- Vertical
- general_literature
- Added
- 2026-04-30 22:47Z
- Tags
- direct