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LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skillsSkill
Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.). This skill should be used when conducting systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, research synthesis, or comprehensive literature searches across biomedical, scientific, and technical domains. Creates professionally formatted markdown documents and PDFs with verified citations in multiple citation styles (APA, Nature, Vancouver, etc.).
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 967 stars are split between them (about 97 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 54/100 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
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Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit df5a498a81e0, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
What its code does:
- Makes network requestsSKILL.md
Web addresses in its code:
- doi.orgscripts/search_databases.py:41
- api.crossref.orgscripts/verify_citations.py:47
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
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This oneliterature-review LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills · Skill | 54 | ★ 967 | ≈125 always | 4mo ago |
| nature-literature-pipeline Yuan1z0825/nature-skills · Skill Both about literature and nature | 86 | ★ 49k | ≈42 always | 17d ago |
| literature-search aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw · Skill Same job: research & papers | 77 | ★ 15k | ≈46 always | 3mo ago |
| literature-research fcakyon/phd-skills · Skill Both about literature | 64 | ★ 424 | ≈22 always | 24d ago |
| literature-reviewer Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar · Subagent Same job: research & papers | 79 | ★ 5.8k | ≈84 in chat | 16d ago |
| literature-survey ai4s-research/ai4s-skills · Skill Same job: research & papers | 50 | ★ 245 | ≈77 always | 3mo ago |