literature-review-tools

Why this score

Popularity score: 63/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank

Security

Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit abd4bf9f8dd6, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.

What its code does:

• Reads environment variables and sends network requests with them API clients do this to send your key to the service. Check which service it talks to.scripts/fetch_openalex.py, scripts/fetch_pubmed.py, scripts/fetch_papers.py:49 and 5 more
• Makes network requestsSKILL.md, scripts/fetch_arxiv.py:36, scripts/fetch_openalex.py:45 and 9 more
• Reads environment variables, where API keys usually livescripts/litrun.py:98

Web addresses in its code:

• arxiv.orgscripts/fetch_arxiv.py:74
• api.biorxiv.orgreference/apis/open-access.md:56
• api.openalex.orgscripts/fetch_openalex.py:24
• ebi.ac.ukscripts/fetch_papers.py:261
• api.core.ac.ukreference/apis/open-access.md:44
• api.crossref.orgscripts/fetch_papers.py:151
• api.unpaywall.orgreference/apis/open-access.md:30
• eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.govscripts/fetch_papers.py:207
• pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govscripts/fetch_papers.py:251
• api.semanticscholar.orgscripts/fetch_papers.py:185
• europepmc.orgscripts/fetch_papers.py:280
• export.arxiv.orgscripts/fetch_papers.py:291
• pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govreference/apis/pubmed-pmc.md:71

These are the sites named in the code, so it's where your data could go. It isn't a complete list: code can build addresses while it runs, and a few of these may be links rather than calls. Whatever you send also goes to the AI model you use.

A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan

Alternatives

Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.