Academic literature search strategy and paper analysis
Find papers, understand research methodologies and synthesize academic findings into structured literature reviews
- What
- Find papers, understand research methodologies and synthesize academic findings into structured literature reviews
- Cost
- Free
- Needs
- none for the guidance itself; the document tooling (create_docx, extract_text_from_pdf) needs the project's office-mcp server wired up
- Install
- Copy the installer prompt below into your Muse — your agent does the rest.
Curated by Skill Harbor — @claude-office-skills' research skill for navigating academic literature: formulating search queries with Boolean operators, PICO and concept mapping; choosing databases by field (Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, arXiv, IEEE Xplore, Scopus, Web of Science and more); the three-pass paper reading strategy (survey, understanding, deep dive); critical-analysis question sets; and ready-made output formats for search strategies and literature reviews with themes, methodology tables, research gaps and citation guidance (APA, IEEE, Chicago). Honest caveats: guidance only — it cannot run live database searches, read paywalled full text, or guarantee current citation counts; it also references the project's own office-mcp server (create_docx, extract_text_from_pdf) for document tooling, which you must have wired up to use; MIT-licensed. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use. Discovered via skills.sh.
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Install
Prerequisites: none for the guidance itself; the document tooling (create_docx, extract_text_from_pdf) needs the project's office-mcp server wired up Install "Academic literature search strategy and paper analysis" for me. A research skill that teaches academic search strategy (Boolean queries, PICO, concept mapping), database selection by field, the three-pass paper reading method, critical-analysis questions, and ready-made literature-review formats with citation guidance — by @claude-office-skills, MIT-licensed. Repository: https://github.com/claude-office-skills/skills/blob/main/academic-search/SKILL.md 1. Fetch the SKILL.md file (and any helper files) from the repository path into a temporary folder and summarize what it does in one or two sentences. 2. Safety check: review the SKILL.md and scripts for anything suspicious (unexpected network calls, shell commands, credential harvesting). This repo should contain zero secrets in code, credentials only via the secure vault, allowed hosts declared in the SKILL.md. Verify that holds here; STOP on any red flag and tell me. 3. Install it as a skill: copy SKILL.md and its helper files into the agent's skills directory, in a folder named "academic-search". 4. Verify with no network calls: frontmatter valid, files in place. 5. Report what was installed, where, and what I still need to do myself (e.g. wire up the office-mcp server if I want the docx/pdf document tools). GitHub is optional: if I have a GitHub account or the gh CLI, you may use it; otherwise public access is fine. Never require it unless it's in the prerequisites above. Rules: don't touch anything outside the temp folder and the install target. If anything looks off, stop and ask me.
Questions
How do I install a build?
Every product page includes a copy-paste install prompt. Paste it into your Muse and it sets the build up for you — no manual configuration.
Where does my money go?
Straight to the seller. Skill Harbor never processes payments: checkout happens on the seller’s own page, usually Stripe.
What does the ✓ next to a creator’s name mean?
It means we confirmed the identity of the person behind the listing. It says nothing about the code itself — always check a build before installing it.