crossref-search

crossref-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from beita6969/ScienceClaw. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,274 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A search and lookup tool for Crossref, a public database of scholarly publication records. It finds citation details such as paper titles, authors, journals, publishers, DOIs, references, funders, and citation counts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to resolve a DOI, search for papers by title, author, or keywords, look up journal ISSNs and publishers, inspect references, or retrieve funder information.
Why use it?
It removes the need to search publisher pages manually when you only need reliable publication metadata. It helps resolve incomplete citations and distinguish metadata lookup from full-text paper access.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to resolve a DOI, search for papers by title, author, or keywords, look up journal ISSNs and publishers, inspect references, or retrieve funder information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/beita6969/scienceclaw/crossref-search
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add beita6969/ScienceClaw --skill crossref-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beita6969/ScienceClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for crossref-search

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/beita6969/scienceclaw/crossref-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/beita6969/scienceclaw/crossref-search.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,274 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00040 $0.01274
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00637
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00127

Measured 8d ago against content hash 72a5342f3841, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

crossref-search scanned grade C with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -s "https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1038/nature12373" | python3 -c "

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

metadata: { "openclaw": { "emoji": "🔗", "requires": { "bins": ["curl"] } } }
skills/crossref-search/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Academic metadata search and DOI resolution via the public CrossRef REST API.

When to Use

  • Resolving a DOI to get full citation metadata
  • Searching for papers by title, author, or keywords
  • Looking up journal ISSN metadata or publisher info
  • Finding citation counts and reference lists
  • Retrieving funder information for grants/awards

When NOT to Use

  • Full-text access or downloading papers (use publisher sites)
  • Preprint search (use arxiv-search)
  • Biomedical literature (use pubmed-search)
  • Author profile pages or h-index (use openalex-search)

DOI Resolution

curl -s "https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1038/nature12373" | python3 -c "
import sys, json
data = json.load(sys.stdin)['message']
title = data.get('title', [''])[0]
authors = ', '.join(f\"{a.get('given','')} {a.get('family','')}\" for a in data.get('author', []))
journal = data.get('container-title', [''])[0]
cited = data.get('is-referenced-by-count', 0)
print(f'Title: {title}')
print(f'Authors: {authors}')
print(f'Journal: {journal} | Citations: {cited}')
"
# Search by query terms
curl -s "https://api.crossref.org/works?query=machine+learning+protein+folding&rows=5&[email protected]" | python3 -c "
import sys, json
data = json.load(sys.stdin)['message']
for item in data['items']:
    title = item.get('title', [''])[0]
    doi = item.get('DOI', '')
    cited = item.get('is-referenced-by-count', 0)
    print(f'{title}')
    print(f'  DOI: {doi} | Citations: {cited}')
"

# Filter by date, type, and sort by citations
curl -s "https://api.crossref.org/works?query=CRISPR&filter=from-pub-date:2023-01-01,type:journal-article&rows=10&sort=is-referenced-by-count&order=desc&[email protected]"

# Search by author
curl -s "https://api.crossref.org/works?query.author=Jennifer+Doudna&rows=10&sort=published&order=desc&[email protected]"

Journal Lookup

# Search journals by title
curl -s "https://api.crossref.org/journals?query=nature+biotechnology&rows=5" | python3 -c "
import sys, json
for j in json.load(sys.stdin)['message']['items']:
    print(f\"{j['title']} (ISSN: {', '.join(j.get('ISSN', []))})\")
"

# Get journal metadata by ISSN
curl -s "https://api.crossref.org/journals/0028-0836"

# Recent works from a journal
curl -s "https://api.crossref.org/journals/0028-0836/works?rows=5&sort=published&order=desc"

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 127 lines · 40 tokens per session scan C 72a5342f3841

Subscribe to this mod's changes

crossref-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository beita6969/ScienceClaw (895 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,274 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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