academic-literature-search

academic-literature-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Zaoqu-Liu/ScienceClaw. It costs 0 tokens per session (4,407 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of academic-literature-search, MIT.

A workflow for finding academic papers and managing their citations from sources such as PubMed, bioRxiv, and arXiv. PubMed indexes biomedical research, while bioRxiv and arXiv host research papers shared before or around formal publication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Searching literature, retrieving papers, checking identifiers such as PMID or DOI, formatting references, removing duplicates, and numbering citations in order of appearance.
Why use it?
It reduces manual searching and citation errors, including invented or inconsistent identifiers and reference details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Searching literature, retrieving papers, checking identifiers such as PMID or DOI, formatting references, removing duplicates, and numbering citations in order of appearance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zaoqu-liu/scienceclaw/academic-literature-search
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Zaoqu-Liu/ScienceClaw --skill academic-literature-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zaoqu-Liu/ScienceClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,407 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.04407
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.02204
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00881
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00441

Measured 12d ago against content hash 30808e50fb46, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

academic-literature-search scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Uses stdlib only (`urllib.request` + `xml.etree.ElementTree`), no external dependencies:
Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to academic-literature-search — 835 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/academic-literature-search/SKILL.md · 416 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 416 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Use this skill when the user asks to search for academic papers, retrieve literature, generate citations, format references, or any task involving PubMed, bioRxiv, arXiv, or academic reference management. Trigger keywords: "搜文献", "检索", "找论文", "参考文献", "引用", "citation", "search papers", "PubMed", "bioRxiv", "arXiv", "GB/T 7714", "PMID", "DOI", "批量引用".

Core Principles

  1. MCP first, Python second: PubMed operations → MCP tools (zero code). Python only for arXiv, GB/T 7714 formatting, and citation post-processing.
  2. Code-driven citations: Citation formatting, validation, deduplication, renumbering — ALL via Python code. NEVER fabricate PMIDs, DOIs, author names, or journal names.
  3. GB/T 7714-2015 sequential numbering: [1][2][3] in-text, references numbered by order of first appearance.
  4. Journal name consistency: Use full journal names throughout (NOT ISO abbreviations). E.g., Nature Medicine not Nat Med. If MCP returns abbreviated names, expand them; if expansion is uncertain, use the name as returned.

Tool Routing Decision Table

操作 用什么 为什么
PubMed 关键词搜索 MCP pubmed_search_articles 原生日期/类型过滤/排序,Agent 零代码
PMID 批量获取详情 MCP pubmed_fetch_contents 4种详情级别,一次200个,含 MeSH
相似论文发现 MCP pubmed_article_connections (similar) 直接调用,返回结构化数据
被引论文发现 MCP pubmed_article_connections (citedin) 同上
论文参考文献(它引了谁) MCP pubmed_article_connections (references) MCP 独有,ELink 不支持
RIS/BibTeX 导出 MCP pubmed_article_connections (citation_formats) 内置格式化
bioRxiv/medRxiv 搜索 MCP pubmed_search_articles + journal filter queryTerm 加 biorxiv[journal]
arXiv 搜索 Python MCP 不覆盖 arXiv
GB/T 7714-2015 格式化 Python MCP 无国标格式
引用后处理/去重/编号 Python MCP 不覆盖

MCP Operations (PubMed — 主力)

1. 关键词搜索

Tool: pubmed_search_articles
Parameters:
  queryTerm: "large language model bioinformatics"
  maxResults: 20
  sortBy: "relevance"                       ← 或 "pub_date"
  fetchBriefSummaries: 10                   ← 返回前10篇摘要
  dateRange:                                ← 可选
    minDate: "2022"
    maxDate: "2026"
    dateType: "pdat"
  filterByPublicationTypes: ["Review"]      ← 可选

Read the full file on GitHub · 416 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 416 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 30808e50fb46

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academic-literature-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zaoqu-Liu/ScienceClaw (60 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 4,407 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 97% identical to academic-literature-search, differing in 835 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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