academic-research
A tool for rigorous academic research using Semantic Scholar and ArXiv. Focuses on finding highly-cited papers, retrieving abstracts, and following citation trails to understand the provenance of ideas.
npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill academic-research-joshuaroll-research-skills-4 --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Academic Research Skill This skill allows you to function as an academic researcher, finding and analyzing scholarly papers with a focus on impact and provenance. ## Capabilities 1. **Search Papers**: Find papers by keyword, ensuring relevance. 2. **Analyze Impact**: Filter by citation count to identify seminal works. 3. **Trace Provenance**: (Optional) Find papers that cite a target paper to seeing how the field evolved. 4. **Get Details**: Retrieve abstracts and direct PDF links. 5. **Velocity Metrics**: See citations per year to identify "trending" papers. 6. **BibTeX Export**: Generate citations for your references. ## Usage Run the python script `search_papers.py` to perform searches. ### Arguments * `query` (required): The search term. * `--limit` (optional): Max results (default 5). * `--year` (optional): Year range (e.g., "2023-2025"). * `--sort` (optional): Sort by "relevance", "citationCount", or "velocity" (new!). * `--open-access` (optional): Only return open access papers. * `--format` (optional): Output "json" (default) or "bibtex". ### Example ```bash # Find "hot" papers on LLMs (high velocity) python3 search_papers.py "Large Language Models" --sort velocity # Get
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Find "hot" papers on LLMs (high velocity) python3 search_papers.py "Large Language Models" --sort velocity Get BibTeX for a specific search python3 search_papers.py "Attention is All You Need" --format bibtex
What does the academic-research skill do?
A tool for rigorous academic research using Semantic Scholar and ArXiv. Focuses on finding highly-cited papers, retrieving abstracts, and following citation trails to understand the provenance of ideas.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill academic-research-joshuaroll-research-skills-4 --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 majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, a repository with 534 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
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.