Setup & Installation
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
Version History
aminer-open-academic 1.0.7 - Updated SKILL.md documentation to use English instead of Chinese throughout. - Clarified usage scenarios, workflow overviews, and API examples for international users. - No code changes; all logic, workflows, and API structures remain unchanged. - Ensured all rules, guidance, and error messages are now available in clear English.
What This Skill Does
Connects to the AMiner Open Platform to query academic data across scholars, papers, institutions, journals, and patents. Wraps 28 individual APIs into 6 combined workflows with built-in cost control, free-first API routing, and automatic retry logic. Requires an AMiner API token set as an environment variable before any query runs.
Automatically routes each query through the cheapest viable API path, so users get accurate academic data without manually managing which of the 28 endpoints to call or overspending on paid tiers.
When to use it
- Looking up a researcher's publication history and citation metrics
- Searching for papers on a topic filtered by author, institution, or journal
- Analyzing a university's research output and patent portfolio
- Tracking papers published in a specific conference or journal for a given year
- Finding patents in a technology domain by keyword
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
User asks: Find recent papers on transformer architecture advances
- 1Check that AMINER_API_KEY environment variable is present
- 2Route the request to paper_qa_search using natural language query mode
- 3Retrieve top 10 results sorted by citation count
- 4Fetch paper details for each result including abstract, authors, and venue
- 5Append an aminer.cn URL to each returned paper
List of 10 papers with titles, authors, publication years, citation counts, and direct links to each paper on aminer.cn
Requirements
Accounts, API keys, or tools you or your AI assistant may need to set up while using this skill.