| name | nature-academic-search |
| description | Structured academic literature discovery and citation verification across Crossref, OpenAlex, PubMed, Europe PMC, arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and configured providers. Use for finding papers, checking DOI metadata, tracing citations, or building a source-backed search set. |
Nature Academic Search
Run a reproducible, source-aware literature search.
- Convert the request into topic, population or system, intervention or method, outcome, time range, venue, and evidence-type constraints.
- Search multiple configured scholarly sources through ScanSci. Keep discovery metadata separate from locally indexed evidence.
- Deduplicate by DOI, PMID, arXiv ID, and normalized title. Preserve the original provider and URL for every candidate.
- Verify high-value records against Crossref or another authoritative metadata source. Flag title, author, year, journal, and DOI conflicts instead of silently choosing one.
- Report a table with relevance rationale, source, identifier, access route, verification status, and next action. A candidate becomes evidence only after lawful acquisition and indexing into the selected ScanSci evidence store.
- For citation questions, distinguish total citations, strict self-citations, citing papers, and citation-count provenance. Do not infer prestige from a single citation metric.
Prefer primary papers for claims, reviews for landscape framing, and official repository or publisher pages for metadata. Never fabricate a DOI or claim that a paper was read when only its abstract or metadata was available.
This is a ScanSci adaptation of the nature-academic-search workflow from Yuan1z0825/nature-skills. Provider credentials remain outside the repository.
