aminer-free-academic

What problem does it solve?

This Skill eliminates the need to pay for premium AMiner API access for common lightweight academic research tasks, letting you quickly screen papers, identify scholars, normalize entity names, and scan patent trends at no cost.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Lightweight Paper Triage: Search for papers by title to get key metadata including first author, venue, publication year, citation bucket, and abstract snippets to quickly judge if a paper is worth deeper analysis.
• Scholar and Entity Normalization: Identify the correct scholar by name, normalize messy institution or venue names to their canonical AMiner IDs, and check if a venue is a conference or journal.
• Patent Trend Scanning: Quickly scan recent patent activity by keyword to assess topic relevance without needing deep, paid patent analysis.
• Use Case: A researcher can use this Skill to quickly check if a newly found paper is relevant to their work, or normalize a non-standard institution name to use in a literature review, all without incurring any API costs.

Quick Start

Use the aminer-free-academic skill to quickly check if the paper "Attention Is All You Need" is relevant to your research and get its key metadata using only free AMiner APIs.