What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps researchers efficiently explore, classify, and synthesize economics literature related to their research questions, identifying gaps and assessing novelty.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Literature Exploration: Conduct broad keyword and commentary searches across multiple sources, including academic and policy content.
- Classification & Screening: Automatically classify papers by relevance, methodology, and topical fit based on abstracts and metadata.
- Citation Chain Building: Follow citations forward and backward from key papers to map the literature network.
- Deep Reading & Summarization: Read and extract detailed insights from selected papers to evaluate their relevance and contributions.
- Gap and Novelty Assessment: Synthesize findings to precisely identify literature gaps, risks of overlap, and strategic framing.
- Adversarial Review: Critically challenge the gap claims to ensure robustness of the research positioning.
Quick Start
To begin, input your research topic and optional papers, then initiate broad keyword searches across academic and policy sources to start mapping the literature landscape.