# Publication Chart Skill

Should be used when the user asks for a publication-quality scientific figure or table...

- Repository: https://github.com/Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar (5959 stars)
- Category: Documents
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-19
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar --skill publication-chart-skill -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar --skill publication-chart-skill -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar --skill publication-chart-skill -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar --skill publication-chart-skill -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar`

## Description

This skill should be used when the user asks for a publication-quality scientific figure or table, wants help choosing the right chart for results, needs a paper-ready pubfig or pubtab workflow, wants a figure + companion table for a results section, wants an Excel sheet turned into publication-ready LaTeX, or wants an existing scientific figure/table reviewed and upgraded.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Publication Chart Skill

## Goal

Use this skill to turn research results into **publication-grade figures and tables** with an end-to-end workflow.

Primary production stack:

- **`pubfig`** for figures
- **`pubtab`** for publication tables

This skill covers the full delivery chain:

1. understand the scientific communication goal,
2. choose the right artifact type,
3. map the task to `pubfig`, `pubtab`, or both,
4. generate concrete runnable instructions,
5. export paper-ready assets,
6. run publication QA,
7. propose targeted revisions.

## Use this skill when

Trigger this skill for requests like:

- “make a publication-quality figure”
- “choose the right chart for these results”
- “turn these results into a paper-ready figure”
- “make a benchmark / ablation / calibration / forest / heatmap / scatter / line / bar figure”
- “make a benchmark / appendix / ablation table from Excel”
- “convert this Excel table into publication-ready LaTeX”
- “prepare one summary figure plus one companion table for the results section”
- “review and improve this scientific figure/table”
- “I already have a weak chart / screenshot / draft plot, make it publication-ready”
- “export panels for a paper figure”

## Do not use this skill for

Do **not** use this skill when the task is mainly:

- manuscript prose writing,
- statistical testing without artifact design,
- raw exploratory analysis with no publication deliverable,
- Figma-first layout work before the figure/table content is solid.

For simple composite assembly after the figure content is already strong, use the optional secondary workflow in `references/composite-assembly.md`.

## Primary contract

### Inputs

Expect some combination of:

The rest: https://github.com/Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar/blob/HEAD/skills/publication-chart-skill/SKILL.md