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Academic Research by majiayu000 — Agent Skill

Name: Academic Research
Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Author: majiayu000

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.

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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

Search Papers: Find papers by keyword, ensuring relevance.
Analyze Impact: Filter by citation count to identify seminal works.
Trace Provenance: (Optional) Find papers that cite a target paper to seeing how the field evolved.
Get Details: Retrieve abstracts and direct PDF links.

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" or "citationCount" (default "relevance").
--open-access (optional): Only return open access papers.

Example

# Find top 5 seminal papers on "Large Language Models"
python3 search_papers.py "Large Language Models" --sort citationCount --limit 5

# Find recent research on "RAG" from 2024
python3 search_papers.py "Retrieval Augmented Generation" --year 2024-2025

Output Format

The script outputs a JSON object (or JSON-lines) containing:

title
authors
year
abstract (truncated if too long)
citationCount
url
pdf_url (if available)

Tips for the Agent

Be Skeptical: High citation count doesn't always mean "correct," but it means "influential."
Check Recency: For fast-moving fields (AI), prioritize year > citations.
Contextualize: When summarizing, mention who wrote it (e.g., "DeepMind," "Stanford") and when.

---name: academic-research-7description: 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.--- # 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. ## 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" or "citationCount" (default "relevance"). * `--open-access` (optional): Only return open access papers. ### Example ```bash # Find top 5 seminal papers on "Large Language Models" python3 search_papers.py "Large Language Models" --sort citationCount --limit 5 # Find recent research on "RAG" from 2024 python3 search_papers.py "Retrieval Augmented Generation" --year 2024-2025 ``` ## Output Format The script outputs a JSON object (or JSON-lines) containing: * `title` * `authors` * `year` * `abstract` (truncated if too long) * `citationCount` * `url` * `pdf_url` (if available) ## Tips for the Agent * **Be Skeptical**: High citation count doesn't always mean "correct," but it means "influential." * **Check Recency**: For fast-moving fields (AI), prioritize year > citations. * **Contextualize**: When summarizing, mention *who* wrote it (e.g., "DeepMind," "Stanford") and *when*.

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