Setup & Installation
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
What This Skill Does
Searches academic databases including arXiv, PubMed, and Semantic Scholar from a single command-line interface. Downloads paper PDFs, extracts citations, and exports bibliographies in BibTeX, RIS, JSON, or Markdown formats. Supports filtering by date, author, citation count, and subject category.
Querying arXiv, PubMed, and Semantic Scholar in one command saves switching between three browser interfaces and manually reformatting citations.
When to use it
- Collecting arXiv preprints on a topic for a literature review
- Exporting BibTeX citations for a LaTeX paper
- Downloading recent PubMed articles on a medical topic
- Finding highly cited papers in a specific field
- Tracking new publications by a particular author
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
User asks: find recent papers on graph neural networks and generate a BibTeX file
- 1Searches arXiv for 'graph neural networks' filtered to the past year
- 2Searches Semantic Scholar for the same query sorted by citation count
- 3Downloads top results as PDFs to a local directory
- 4Exports combined results as BibTeX to gnn_references.bib
gnn_references.bib file with formatted citations ready for LaTeX import
Requirements
Accounts, API keys, or tools you or your AI assistant may need to set up while using this skill.