Citation Management
Comprehensive citation management for academic research.
Install
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill citation-management -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills55.7k
- Category
- Data and ML
- Updated
- 9d ago
- License
- MIT License
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
- Runs scripts
- Yes, review before use
What it does
Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search OpenAlex, PubMed, and Google Scholar for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find papers, verify citation information, convert DOIs to BibTeX, or ensure reference accuracy in scientific writing.
Citation Management
Overview
Manage citations systematically throughout the research and writing process. This skill provides tools and strategies for searching academic databases (Google Scholar, PubMed), extracting accurate metadata from multiple sources (CrossRef, PubMed, arXiv), validating citation information, and generating properly formatted BibTeX entries.
Critical for maintaining citation accuracy, avoiding reference errors, and ensuring reproducible research. Integrates seamlessly with the literature-review skill for comprehensive research workflows.
When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when:
- Searching for specific papers on Google Scholar or PubMed
- Converting DOIs, PMIDs, or arXiv IDs to properly formatted BibTeX
- Extracting complete metadata for citations (authors, title, journal, year, etc.)
- Validating existing citations for accuracy
- Cleaning and formatting BibTeX files
- Finding highly cited papers in a specific field
- Verifying that citation information matches the actual publication
- Building a bibliography for a manuscript or thesis
- Checking for duplicate citations
- Ensuring consistent citation formatting
If a document built from these citations needs a diagram, use the scientific-schematics skill.
Core Workflow
Citation management follows a systematic process. Each phase below shows the canonical command; every variant, option, and metadata-source detail is in references/core_workflow.md.
Phase 1: Paper Discovery and Search
Find relevant papers. Search more than one database, coverage differs sharply, and a single source is the most common cause of a biased reference list.
# OpenAlex: multidisciplinary REST API; optional OPENALEX_API_KEY for account quota
python scripts/search_openalex.py "CRISPR gene editing" --limit 50 --output results.json
