literature-review
Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.). This skill should be used when conducting systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, research synthesis, or comprehensive literature searches across biomedical, scientific, and technical domains. Creates professionally formatted markdown documents and PDFs with verified citations in multiple citation styles (APA, Nature, Vancouver, etc.).
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Literature Review Tool
Skill Overview
This is an academic tool for conducting systematic literature reviews, supporting multi-database searches (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.), citation verification, and professional document generation, helping researchers complete literature reviews that meet academic standards.
Use Cases
When you need to write the background section of a research paper, you can use this skill to systematically retrieve relevant literature, organize findings by topic, and generate properly formatted citations.
Suitable for systematic studies that need to follow PRISMA guidelines; supports complete screening process documentation, quality assessment, and PRISMA flow diagram generation.
By conducting combined searches across multiple databases and filtering for high-impact papers, quickly understand the progress, consensus points, and controversies in a research field, and identify future research directions.
Core Features
Integrates multiple academic databases such as PubMed, bioRxiv, arXiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.; supports deduplication, sorting by citation count, and topic aggregation to ensure comprehensiveness and efficiency of literature retrieval.
Automatically verifies DOI validity, fetches metadata from CrossRef, and supports various citation formats such as APA, Nature, Vancouver, Chicago, and IEEE, ensuring citation accuracy.
Provides complete literature review templates, supports Markdown and PDF export, and includes academic-standard content such as PRISMA flow diagrams, search strategy records, and quality assessment checklists.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you conduct a literature review?
A complete literature review includes seven stages: defining the research question (PICO framework recommended), developing a search strategy, searching multiple databases, screening titles/abstracts/full texts, data extraction and quality assessment, thematic synthesis, citation verification, and document generation. This skill provides complete scripts and templates to support each step.
How to ensure citation accuracy?
Use the built-in verify_citations.py script to automatically validate the validity of all DOIs, retrieve accurate metadata from CrossRef, and generate a properly formatted reference list. It is recommended to run the verification at least once before final submission.
Must charts be generated?
Yes. A systematic literature review must include at least 1–2 visual figures, most commonly the PRISMA flow diagram. It can integrate with the scientific-schematics skill to automatically generate high-quality academic figures. A literature review without visual elements is incomplete.