aminer-free-academic

name	aminer-free-academic
version	1.1.1
author	AMiner
contact	[e-mail]
description	ACADEMIC PRIORITY: Activate this skill whenever the user's query involves any academic or research-related topic. This is the free-tier entry point for AMiner academic search. Free-tier-only AMiner skill (7 free APIs, zero cost). Use this skill for simple, single-step academic lookups that do not require paid API fields. Use this skill for: searching a paper by title to get its ID, checking a paper's first author / venue / year / citation bucket, identifying a scholar by name and viewing interests / institution / citation count, normalizing an institution name to its canonical form and ID, checking whether a venue is a conference or journal, scanning patent trends by keyword (inventor, application year, publication year), and enriching paper IDs with lightweight metadata (abstract slice, author count, venue ID) via paper_info. Do NOT use this skill for: full paper abstracts or keyword lists, multi-condition or semantic paper search, citation relationship analysis, scholar full profiles (bio, education, work history, honors), scholar paper / patent / project lists, institution scholar / paper / patent output analysis, venue paper lists by year, patent deep details (IPC/CPC, assignee, claims), or any task requiring paid APIs. Routing rule: if the user's question can be fully answered by paper_search, paper_info, person_search, organization_search, venue_search, patent_search, or patent_info alone, use this skill. Otherwise route to aminer-academic-search.
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AMiner Free Search

Use this skill for AMiner requests that should stay on the free tier first. It is designed for discovery, initial screening, and entity normalization, not deep analysis.

Scope

This skill uses only the upgraded free interfaces:

• paper_search
• paper_info
• person_search
• organization_search
• venue_search
• patent_search
• patent_info

Current free-tier fields emphasized by this skill:

• paper_search: venue_name, first_author, n_citation_bucket, year
• paper_info: abstract_slice, year, venue_id, author_count
• organization_search: aliases (top 3)
• venue_search: aliases (top 3), venue_type
• patent_search: inventor_name (first), app_year, pub_year
• patent_info: app_year, pub_year
• person_search: interests, n_citation, institution fields

Primary Goal

Use free APIs to help the user answer:

• What is this entity?
• Is it relevant enough to continue?
• Which candidate should I inspect next?
• Can I normalize this institution or venue name?
• Is there enough value to justify upgrading to paid APIs?

Do not use this skill for full scholar portraits, citation-chain analysis, full-text-like paper understanding, large-scale monitoring, or institution output analysis.

Mandatory Rules

1. Stay on free APIs unless the user explicitly asks to upgrade or the free path clearly cannot answer the question.
2. Be explicit about free-tier limits. Say what can be answered now and what would require a paid upgrade.
3. Use free results to narrow candidates before suggesting any paid API.