literature-search

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Search academic literature using Semantic Scholar, arXiv, and OpenAlex APIs. Returns structured JSONL with title, authors, year, venue, abstract, citations, and BibTeX. Use when the user needs to find papers, check related work, or build a bibliography.

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npx skill4agent add lingzhi227/claude-skills literature-search

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academic-literature-searchsemantic-scholar-apiarxiv-preprintsopenalex-searchbibtex-management

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Literature Search

Search multiple academic databases to find relevant papers.

Input

  • $ARGUMENTS
    — The search query (natural language)

Scripts

Semantic Scholar (primary — best for ML/AI, has BibTeX)

bash
python ~/.claude/skills/deep-research/scripts/search_semantic_scholar.py \
  --query "QUERY" --max-results 20 --year-range 2022-2026 \
  --api-key "$(grep S2_API_Key /Users/lingzhi/Code/keys.md 2>/dev/null | cut -d: -f2 | tr -d ' ')" \
  -o results_s2.jsonl
Key flags: 
--peer-reviewed-only
, 
--top-conferences
, 
--min-citations N
, 
--venue NeurIPS ICML

arXiv (latest preprints)

bash
python ~/.claude/skills/deep-research/scripts/search_arxiv.py \
  --query "QUERY" --max-results 10 -o results_arxiv.jsonl

OpenAlex (broadest coverage, free, no API key)

bash
python ~/.claude/skills/literature-search/scripts/search_openalex.py \
  --query "QUERY" --max-results 20 --year-range 2022-2026 \
  --min-citations 5 -o results_openalex.jsonl

Merge & Deduplicate

bash
python ~/.claude/skills/deep-research/scripts/paper_db.py merge \
  --inputs results_s2.jsonl results_arxiv.jsonl results_openalex.jsonl \
  --output merged.jsonl

CrossRef (DOI-based lookup, broadest type coverage)

bash
python ~/.claude/skills/literature-search/scripts/search_crossref.py \
  --query "QUERY" --rows 10 --output results_crossref.jsonl
Key flags: 
--bibtex
(output .bib format), 
--rows N

Download arXiv Source (get .tex files)

bash
python ~/.claude/skills/literature-search/scripts/download_arxiv_source.py \
  --title "Paper Title" --output-dir arxiv_papers/
Key flags: 
--arxiv-id 1706.03762
, 
--metadata
, 
--max-results N

Generate BibTeX from results

bash
python ~/.claude/skills/deep-research/scripts/bibtex_manager.py \
  --jsonl merged.jsonl --output references.bib

Workflow

  1. Expand the user's query into 2-4 complementary search queries
  2. Run Semantic Scholar search (primary) with expanded queries
  3. Run arXiv for very recent preprints (< 3 months)
  4. Optionally run OpenAlex for broader coverage
  5. Merge and deduplicate results
  6. Rank by: citations (0.3) + recency (0.3) + venue quality (0.2) + relevance (0.2)
  7. Present structured results table

Venue Quality Tiers

Tier 1: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, KDD, AAAI, IJCAI, SIGIR, WWW Tier 2: AISTATS, UAI, COLT, COLING, EACL, WACV, JMLR, TACL Tier 3: Workshops, arXiv preprints — mark with 
(preprint)

Output Format

Present results as a table + detailed entries with BibTeX keys. Always note preprint status.

Related Skills

  • Downstream: citation-management, literature-review, related-work-writing
  • See also: deep-research, novelty-assessment