literature-review

Automate systematic literature reviews with verified citations and Markdown or PDF outputs.

3|Updated Oct 26, 2025
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npx skills add https://github.com/xiechy/climate-ai --skill literature-review-xiechy
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Skill: literature-review
Source: https://github.com/xiechy/climate-ai/tree/main/scientific-thinking/literature-review
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/xiechy/climate-ai --skill literature-review-xiechy

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

💡 This Skill requires requests, and includes scripts (resource) and references (resource) and assets (resource) components.

What problem does it solve?

This Skill guides comprehensive, systematic literature reviews across databases; it ensures rigorous search, screening, data extraction, and citation verification, and produces markdown and PDF outputs.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Multi-Database Searches: Plan and execute searches across PubMed, arXiv, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, etc.
  • Screening & Extraction: Deduplicate, screen, extract data, and compile citations with verifications.
  • Professional Outputs: Generate markdown and PDF reports with proper citations using templates.

Quick Start

Use the script to search and aggregate literature results, then generate a markdown report with verified citations.

Frequently Asked Questions about literature-review

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I conduct a systematic literature review across multiple databases?

Systematic literature reviews automate comprehensive searches across PubMed, arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and Google Scholar, then deduplicate, screen, and extract data from results. This Skill orchestrates multi-database queries, verification, and aggregation to produce professionally formatted reports with verified citations and proper methodology documentation.

Can I generate PDF and Markdown reports with verified citations from literature searches?

Yes. After aggregating search results across databases, this Skill generates Markdown and PDF outputs with verified citations using professional templates. The outputs include proper formatting, citation verification, and structured metadata suitable for meta-analyses and research syntheses.

What's the best way to verify citations in a large literature review?

Citation verification is built into the aggregation workflow. The Skill validates citations against database records and integrates with tools like gget and bioservices during data extraction, ensuring accuracy across biomedical, scientific, and technical domains without manual verification bottlenecks.

How do I deduplicate and screen results from multiple literature databases?

The Skill automates deduplication across multi-database results and implements screening workflows to filter relevant papers. It compiles extracted data into structured format, eliminating manual sorting and preparing clean datasets for synthesis and analysis.

Does this work for meta-analyses and systematic reviews in biomedical research?

Yes. The Skill is designed for meta-analyses, research syntheses, and rigorous literature searches in biomedical, scientific, and technical domains. It satisfies requirements for multi-database searching, data extraction, citation verification, and professional output generation required by systematic review protocols.

What dependencies do I need to run literature review automation?

The primary dependency is the requests library for database queries. The Skill integrates with external tools like gget, bioservices, and datacommons-client for enhanced biomedical data access, but requests is the core requirement for multi-database searching and aggregation.