Skills pipeworx-crossref

Search academic papers by keyword, look up metadata by DOI, and fetch journal info via Crossref

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/openclaw/skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/brucegutman/pipeworx-crossref" ~/.claude/skills/clawdbot-skills-pipeworx-crossref && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/brucegutman/pipeworx-crossref/SKILL.md

source content

Crossref Academic Papers

Crossref indexes over 150 million scholarly works. Search papers by keyword, retrieve full metadata for a specific DOI, or look up journal information by ISSN. Essential for literature reviews, citation analysis, and academic research tools.

Tools

search_works
— Keyword search across papers, books, and proceedings. Returns title, authors, DOI, publication date, citation count, and journal info.
get_work
— Detailed metadata for a specific DOI (e.g.,
```
"10.1038/nature12373"
```
). Includes abstract, references, funders, and license info.
get_journal
— Journal metadata by ISSN (e.g.,
```
"1476-4687"
```
for Nature). Returns publisher, subject areas, and coverage dates.

When to reach for this

A researcher asks "find me papers on climate change and machine learning"
Need to verify a citation or look up the full reference for a DOI
Building a bibliography tool that auto-fills metadata from DOIs
Analyzing citation counts or publication trends in a field

Example: searching for CRISPR papers

curl -s -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/crossref/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_works","arguments":{"query":"CRISPR gene editing therapy","limit":5}}}'

Connect your client

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-crossref": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote@latest", "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/crossref/mcp"]
    }
  }
}