0xmariowu/autosearch/crossref

Skill Attribution

Source: self-written for task Plan-0420 W7 F701 + F702.

name: crossref description: Cross-publisher scholarly search via the Crossref DOI registry, useful for journal articles, book chapters, and citation-linked research metadata. version: 1 languages: [en] methods:

• id: api_search

impl: methods/api_search.py requires: [] rate_limit: {per_min: 30, per_hour: 500} fallback_chain: [api_search] when_to_use: query_languages: [en] query_types: [academic, doi-lookup, citation, scholarly, journal-article] avoid_for: [social, multimedia, real-time] quality_hint: typical_yield: medium chinese_native: false layer: leaf domains: [academic] scenarios: [doi-lookup, publication-metadata] model_tier: Fast experience_digest: experience.md

Overview

crossref is the broad DOI-registry channel for scholarly metadata across many publishers, journals, books, and proceedings. It complements specialized paper indexes by widening recall when the user asks for citation-oriented or publisher-agnostic academic coverage.

When To Choose It

• Choose it for English scholarly search, DOI-oriented lookup, journal article discovery, and citation-heavy queries.
• Choose it when a cross-publisher registry is more useful than a discipline-specific bibliography.
• Avoid it for social content, multimedia search, or real-time discussion.

How To Search

• api_search queries the Crossref works API by title and normalizes title, author, venue, year, abstract, and DOI URL fields.
• When abstracts are missing, snippets are synthesized from authors, container title, year, type, and citation count.

Known Quirks

• Abstracts may arrive as JATS-like tagged strings and need lightweight tag stripping.
• Metadata quality varies by publisher, so author and date completeness can differ between records.
• Crossref is broad rather than domain-specific, so relevance can be noisier than a focused academic index.

Quality Bar

• Evidence items have non-empty title and url.
• No crash on empty or malformed API response.
• Source channel field matches the channel name.