literature-scout

Searches and verifies academic literature across multiple perspectives to produce a validated citation list.

2|Updated Aug 9, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/DeepJH/doubao-skill-and-info --skill literature-scout-deepjh
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Skill: literature-scout
Source: https://github.com/DeepJH/doubao-skill-and-info/tree/main/skills/doubao-academic-researcher/sub-skills/literature-scout
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/DeepJH/doubao-skill-and-info --skill literature-scout-deepjh

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

💡 This Skill includes references (resource) components.

What problem does it solve? Academic research often suffers from incomplete literature coverage and fabricated or unverifiable citations. This Skill performs systematic, multi-round literature searches on a research topic and verifies every citation for existence, accuracy, and authority, producing a trustworthy reference list. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Wide-to-Narrow Iterative Search: Starts with direct searches on the original topic terms, then expands into 3-5 search perspectives covering mainstream, critical, adjacent-discipline, methodological, and policy angles. - Five-Level Citation Verification: Classifies each reference as VERIFIED, MINOR, MAJOR, UNVERIFIABLE, or PAYWALL, with a zero-tolerance policy for fabricated citations and mandatory authority signals for core evidence. - Multilingual and Citation-Network Coverage: Searches across the languages the field actually publishes in and uses backward/forward citation tracing to surface seminal works and recent advances. - Use Case: Ask it to find papers on a topic like "protein language models for drug discovery" and receive a verified, role-tagged literature list grouped by theme, ready for synthesis into a survey. ## Quick Start Help me search for papers about the impact of social media on adolescent mental health and verify each citation.

Frequently Asked Questions about literature-scout

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

FAQPage Schema
How do I systematically search academic literature on a research topic?

Start with direct searches using the original topic terms, then build 3-5 search perspectives covering mainstream, critical, methodological, and policy angles. Iterate from broad to narrow keywords and stop when saturation criteria like coverage and citation closure are met.

How to verify that academic citations are real and not fabricated?

Verify each citation by searching its full title and first author in scholarly databases, checking title and year match, and preferring DOI lookups. Classify results into five levels from VERIFIED to UNVERIFIABLE, and exclude anything that cannot be confirmed.

Can literature search cover non-English academic sources?

Yes, the search covers the languages the field actually publishes in by default, including Chinese databases like CNKI, Wanfang, and VIP alongside Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, and PubMed. Single-language searching is treated as a coverage risk.

What quality standards must a paper meet to support core arguments?

Core evidence must be graded A or B, include a URL, an authority signal such as top_journal or high_citation, and a concrete quality basis like CSSCI indexing, JCR quartile, impact factor, or citation count. Metadata-only reads cannot support core claims.

When should I stop searching for more papers on a topic?

Stop when at least three saturation criteria are met: subtopic coverage, diminishing new results, thematic saturation, citation closure, and time-span coverage. If none are met after four rounds, record a search limitation and proceed.