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academic-paper-search

This skill should be used when the user asks to "search for academic papers", "find working papers on SSRN", "look up a DOI", "download paper PDF", "check open access availability", "search NBER papers", "find arXiv preprints", or "search CrossRef". Provides unified search, metadata retrieval, and PDF download across arXiv, NBER, SSRN, CrossRef, OpenAlex, Unpaywall, and Semantic Scholar. Covers economics, finance, social science, CS/AI, and all academic disciplines.

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Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-paper-search --agent claude-code

Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.

Facts
Files in the skill folder: 2
SKILL.md size: 14 KB
Bundled scripts: none
Allowed tools: -Bash-Read-Write-Edit-Glob-Grep
Path: skills/68-research-productivity-skills/academic-paper-search/SKILL.md
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Where it comes from
Stars: 3,244
Language: Stata
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Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.

From the SKILL.md

# Academic Paper Search A unified toolkit for discovering, retrieving metadata, and downloading academic papers across all major sources. The right API depends on the task — this skill routes to the best source. ## Decision Tree: Which API to Use ``` What is needed? │ ├─ SEARCH for papers on a topic │ ├─ arXiv preprints (CS/AI/Physics/Econ) ──→ arXiv API │ ├─ NBER working papers (economics) ──────

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About this skill
What does the academic-paper-search skill do?

This skill should be used when the user asks to "search for academic papers", "find working papers on SSRN", "look up a DOI", "download paper PDF", "check open access availability", "search NBER papers", "find arXiv preprints", or "search CrossRef". Provides unified search, metadata retrieval, and PDF download across arXiv, NBER, SSRN, CrossRef, OpenAlex, Unpaywall, and Semantic Scholar. Covers economics, finance, social science, CS/AI, and all academic disciplines.

How do I install it?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-paper-search --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.

Where does this skill come from?

From brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, a repository with 3,244 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.

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Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.

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