# Scientific Retrieval

> Retrieve and recommend relevant documents from financial, historical, and scientific archives

- Skill: `beita6969/scientific-retrieval` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add beita6969/scientific-retrieval`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/beita6969/scientific-retrieval/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: beita6969 (https://skillmd.com/u/beita6969)
- Updated: 2026-09-09
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/beita6969/scientific-retrieval

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# Scientific Retrieval & Recommendation

## Purpose
Retrieve relevant documents, datasets, and resources from large scientific and domain-specific archives.

## Key Datasets
- **Financial Reports SEC** (JanosAudran/financial-reports-sec): SEC 10-K filings with 20 sections and sentiment labels
- **Historical Newswire** (dell-research-harvard/newswire): Historical news article corpus for digital humanities research

## Protocol
1. **Query analysis** — Parse information need, identify key concepts and constraints
2. **Source selection** — Choose appropriate databases and archives
3. **Search execution** — Multi-strategy search (keyword, semantic, citation-based)
4. **Relevance ranking** — Score and rank results by relevance, authority, recency
5. **Result synthesis** — Organize and present findings with metadata

## Retrieval Domains
- **Financial documents**: SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K), earnings calls, analyst reports
- **Historical archives**: Newspapers, government records, digitized manuscripts
- **Scientific literature**: Journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings
- **Patent databases**: USPTO, EPO, WIPO patent documents

## Recommendation Types
- **Similar documents**: Find related papers/reports based on content similarity
- **Citation chain**: Forward/backward citation tracking
- **Cross-domain**: Find analogous work in different disciplines
- **Temporal**: Track how a topic evolves over time

## Rules
- Always report search coverage and potential gaps
- Rank by relevance, not just recency
- Include document metadata (date, source, section, author)
- For financial documents, note the filing period and any restatements