Introduction to literature search & review skills - systematic paper finding, screening, extraction, and citation traversal
Systematic literature review workflows for finding, screening, and extracting data from papers. Triggers when users ask literature search questions, using PubMed and Semantic Scholar APIs to search, screen abstracts, extract specific findings, and traverse citations.
/plugin marketplace add kthorn/research-superpower/plugin install kthorn-research-superpowers@kthorn/research-superpowerThis skill inherits all available tools. When active, it can use any tool Claude has access to.
Research Superpowers gives Claude Code systematic workflows for literature searching and review.
Focus: Finding, screening, and extracting data from published papers. NOT for analyzing experimental data or designing experiments.
Use these skills for systematic literature reviews:
Literature Search & Review Skills (skills/research/)
When user asks a literature search question:
Each query creates a folder in research-sessions/:
research-sessions/YYYY-MM-DD-query-description/
├── SUMMARY.md # Main findings
├── papers-reviewed.json # Deduplication tracking (DOI → status)
├── papers/ # Downloaded PDFs and supplementary data
└── citations/ # Citation graph tracking
For systematic literature review:
PubMed E-utilities (no key required):
https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgihttps://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esummary.fcgihttps://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgiSemantic Scholar (free tier works, optional key for higher limits):
https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/DOI:{doi}https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/{id}/referenceshttps://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/{id}/citationsUse the find-skills script to search for relevant skills:
# From project directory
./scripts/find-skills # List all skills
./scripts/find-skills literature # Search for "literature"
./scripts/find-skills 'cite|ref' # Regex search
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