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Find academic papers, explore citations, and export BibTeX. Use when asked about research papers, references, citations, bibliography, or scholarly information.
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| name | scholar-search |
| description | Find academic papers, explore citations, and export BibTeX. Use when asked about research papers, references, citations, bibliography, or scholarly information. |
Find papers with s2cli (Semantic Scholar), openalexcli (OpenAlex), and arxivy (arXiv), get high-quality BibTeX with dblpcli (DBLP). All tools run via uvx — no installation needed.
Three tools for paper discovery, each with different strengths.
Best for: paper recommendations, citation/reference networks, arXiv/DOI lookups, citation count filtering.
# Search by keyword
uvx s2cli search "attention mechanism" --limit 10 --json
uvx s2cli search "transformers" --year 2020-2024 --min-citations 100 --json
# Filter options: --year, --venue, --field, --min-citations, --open-access
# Get paper details by ID (supports S2 ID, DOI, arXiv, CorpusId)
uvx s2cli paper ARXIV:1706.03762 --json
uvx s2cli paper DOI:10.18653/v1/N18-3011 --json
# Citation network
uvx s2cli citations ARXIV:1706.03762 --limit 20 --json # papers citing this
uvx s2cli references ARXIV:1706.03762 --limit 20 --json # papers cited by this
# Recommendations based on a seed paper
uvx s2cli recommend ARXIV:1706.03762 --limit 10 --json
uvx s2cli recommend ARXIV:1706.03762 --pool all-cs --json # pool: 'recent' or 'all-cs'
# Author search and papers
uvx s2cli author search "Yoshua Bengio" --json
uvx s2cli author papers <author_id> --json
Best for: broadest coverage (260M+ works), institution/journal queries, group-by aggregation, ORCID lookups, date range filtering.
# Search by keyword
uvx openalexcli search "attention mechanism" --limit 10 --json
uvx openalexcli search "transformers" --from-date 2020-01-01 --min-citations 100 --json
# Filter options: --filter, --from-date, --to-date, --min-citations, --open-access, --type, --sort, --group-by
# Get work by OpenAlex ID
uvx openalexcli work W2741809807 --json
# Citation network
uvx openalexcli citations W2741809807 --limit 20 --json
uvx openalexcli references W2741809807 --limit 20 --json
# Author search and works
uvx openalexcli author search "Yoshua Bengio" --json
uvx openalexcli author works <author_id> --json
# Institution queries
uvx openalexcli institution search "MIT" --json
uvx openalexcli institution works <institution_id> --json
# Journal/source queries
uvx openalexcli source search "Nature" --json
uvx openalexcli source works <source_id> --json
# Aggregation (unique to OpenAlex)
uvx openalexcli search "deep learning" --group-by publication_year --json
Best for: searching arXiv directly, getting paper details by arXiv ID, browsing recent submissions in a category. No API key needed.
# Search by keyword
uvx arxivy search "attention mechanism" --limit 10
uvx arxivy search "transformers" -c cs.CL -n 20
uvx arxivy search "diffusion models" --sort submittedDate
# Include abstracts in results
uvx arxivy search "RLHF" -c cs.AI --abstract
# Get paper details by arXiv ID (accepts bare IDs, versioned IDs, or full URLs)
uvx arxivy paper 1706.03762
uvx arxivy paper 1706.03762 2010.11929 1810.04805 # compare multiple
uvx arxivy paper 1706.03762 --json
# Browse recent submissions in a category
uvx arxivy new cs.AI
uvx arxivy new cs.CL -n 20 --abstract
# BibTeX export (fallback — prefer dblpcli for curated entries)
uvx arxivy bibtex 1706.03762
uvx arxivy bibtex 1706.03762 2010.11929 > refs.bib
Note on output: arxivy auto-detects whether stdout is a terminal. In a terminal it shows Rich tables; when piped it outputs JSON. Use --json to force JSON in a terminal.
| Need | Use |
|---|---|
| Recommendations for a paper | s2cli recommend |
| Citation/reference graph traversal | s2cli citations / s2cli references |
| arXiv ID or DOI lookup | s2cli paper or arxivy paper |
| Search arXiv directly (by category, recency) | arxivy search |
| Browse new arXiv submissions | arxivy new |
| Broadest search coverage | openalexcli search |
| Filter by institution or journal | openalexcli institution / openalexcli source |
| Aggregate stats (group-by) | openalexcli search --group-by |
| ORCID-based author lookup | openalexcli author get |
Use dblpcli for high-quality BibTeX sourced directly from DBLP (curated, consistent formatting). If a paper isn't in DBLP (e.g. a very recent arXiv preprint), fall back to uvx arxivy bibtex <arxiv_id>.
Find the paper's DBLP key by searching:
uvx dblpcli search "attention is all you need" --format json
The key field in results (e.g., conf/nips/VaswaniSPUJGKP17) is what you need.
Export BibTeX:
uvx dblpcli bibtex conf/nips/VaswaniSPUJGKP17
Batch export (multiple keys):
uvx dblpcli bibtex conf/nips/VaswaniSPUJGKP17 journals/jmlr/KingmaB14
Custom citation key:
uvx dblpcli bibtex conf/nips/VaswaniSPUJGKP17 --key vaswani2017attention
Save to file:
uvx dblpcli bibtex conf/nips/VaswaniSPUJGKP17 --output refs.bib
# Search publications (supports AND/OR operators, author: prefix)
uvx dblpcli search "transformer attention" --format json
uvx dblpcli search "deep learning" --year 2020-2024 --format json
uvx dblpcli search "author:Vaswani" --limit 10 --format json
# Get publication details
uvx dblpcli pub conf/nips/VaswaniSPUJGKP17 --format json
# Author workflow
uvx dblpcli author search "Geoffrey Hinton" --format json # find PID
uvx dblpcli author get <pid> --format json # author details
uvx dblpcli author pubs <pid> --format json # list publications
uvx dblpcli author bibtex <pid> # BibTeX for ALL papers
# Venue queries
uvx dblpcli venue search "NeurIPS" --format json
uvx dblpcli venue pubs conf/nips --year 2023 --format json
uvx s2cli search "topic" --json or uvx openalexcli search "topic" --jsonuvx s2cli citations <id> --jsonuvx s2cli recommend <id> --jsonuvx dblpcli search "paper title" --format jsonuvx dblpcli bibtex <key1> <key2> <key3> --output refs.bibuvx dblpcli search "title" --format jsonuvx dblpcli bibtex <key1> <key2> ... --output refs.bibuvx s2cli paper ARXIV:1706.03762 --jsonuvx s2cli citations ARXIV:1706.03762 --limit 20 --jsonuvx s2cli references ARXIV:1706.03762 --limit 20 --jsonuvx s2cli recommend ARXIV:1706.03762 --jsonuvx dblpcli author search "Name" --format json → uvx dblpcli author bibtex <pid>uvx s2cli author search "Name" --json → uvx s2cli author papers <id> --jsonuvx openalexcli author search "Name" --json → uvx openalexcli author works <id> --json| Variable | Purpose | Required |
|---|---|---|
S2_API_KEY | Semantic Scholar API key (higher rate limits) | No |
OPENALEX_EMAIL | OpenAlex polite pool (faster responses) | No |
Both tools work without these but may hit rate limits on heavy use.
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