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An AI teammate for OpenAlex.

Connect OpenAlex and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 14 OpenAlex actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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300 free credits. No card. Read-only if you want.

Things to ask about OpenAlex
  • What changed in OpenAlex this week compared with last week?
  • Pull these numbers from OpenAlex into a sheet and chart them.
  • Text me if the daily figure in OpenAlex drops by more than 20%.
  • Build me a Monday summary from OpenAlex.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in OpenAlex

14 OpenAlex actions, picked for what you ask.

About OpenAlex: OpenAlex is an open catalog of scholarly works, authors, institutions, sources, topics, and related research metadata.

Reads

9 in all · always allowed
  • Query Works
    Search, filter, sort, sample, select, or group scholarly works.
  • Get Collection
    Get metadata for one private OpenAlex collection owned by the connected user.
  • Get Metadata Entity
    Retrieve one OpenAlex work, author, source, institution, topic, keyword, publisher, funder, award,…
  • List My Collections
    List private OpenAlex collections owned by the connected API-key user, optionally finding…
  • Autocomplete Entities
    Resolve a partial name or title to likely OpenAlex entity IDs before filtering or retrieving…
  • Download Work Content
    Download an OpenAlex-cached PDF or gzipped GROBID TEI file for a work.
  • Get Rate Limit Status
    Validate the connected OpenAlex API key and inspect daily budget, prepaid balance, reset timing,…
  • Query Metadata Entities
    Search, filter, sort, sample, select, or group one OpenAlex metadata resource other than works,…
  • List Collection Entities
    List one page of entity IDs in an owned private collection together with collection metadata and…

Changes

5 in all · off when OpenAlex is read-only
  • Create Collection
    Create a private, single-entity-type OpenAlex collection, optionally with an initial bounded set of…
  • Delete Collection
    Permanently delete exactly one owned private OpenAlex collection and all of its collection…
  • Update Collection
    Update a private collection's name or description, or change its entity type while the collection…
  • Add Collection Entities
    Bulk-add one or more matching OpenAlex entity IDs to an owned collection without duplicating…
  • Remove Collection Entities
    Bulk-remove one or more entity memberships from an owned private OpenAlex collection without…

Showing 14 of 14. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect OpenAlex

    Open Connections, find OpenAlex and paste an API key from your OpenAlex account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share OpenAlex with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a OpenAlex job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

OpenAlex, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

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Questions

OpenAlex and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with OpenAlex?

Yes. OpenAlex is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with an API key. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect OpenAlex?

Open Connections, find OpenAlex and paste an API key from your OpenAlex account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

What can Cicada do in OpenAlex?

14 actions: 9 that read from OpenAlex and 5 that change things in it, for example query works, get collection, get metadata entity. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in OpenAlex?

Yes. In Connections, set OpenAlex to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about OpenAlex from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run OpenAlex jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my OpenAlex data safe?

Your OpenAlex login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

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