9 boosters for "academic-research" — open source, verified from GitHub, ready to install
Heuristic scoring (no AI key configured).
Systematic literature survey for positioning a research contribution. Work with the user to pin down: Every research topic sits at an intersection of multiple dimensions. Identify 2-4 axes:
Pipeline for downloading academic paper full-text at scale. Handles the three classes of sources that exist in 2026: 1. Publisher TDM APIs (Elsevier / Wiley / Springer) — for paywalled content where the institution has a subscription 2. OA aggregators (Unpaywall / OpenAlex / Crossref) — for Open Acc
Turn social media paper recommendations into actionable research items. Use platform-specific tools to fetch the full content: From the extracted content, identify all referenced papers:
Structured workflow for reading academic papers efficiently. Follow the appropriate level template above. When in doubt, start with Level 2. After reading, save the digest:
Systematic, multi-engine academic paper search. Choose engines based on the search goal: Before searching, clarify:
Systematic management of an academic literature library via Zotero. Standard collection hierarchy: Use tags to cross-cut the collection hierarchy:
Thin CLI wrapper around PaperBanana (a.k.a. PaperVizAgent), a multi-agent figure-generation pipeline for academic papers. The skill provides exactly one script: . It feeds
"name": "academic-research", "description": "Academic research toolkit for AI PhD researchers — literature survey, paper reviewing, citation management, and more."
