Navigate a structured literature review workflow in Claude Code, from finding and screening papers to extracting results and following citations. Learn which related skills to use and how to organize findings, PDFs, and duplicate tracking.
Introduction to literature search & review skills - systematic paper finding, screening, extraction, and citation traversal
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Research Superpowers gives Claude Code systematic workflows for literature searching and review.
Focus: Finding, screening, and extracting data from published papers. NOT for analyzing experimental data or designing experiments.
Use these skills for systematic literature reviews:
Literature Search & Review Skills (skills/research/)
When user asks a literature search question:
Each query creates a folder in research-sessions/:
research-sessions/YYYY-MM-DD-query-description/
├── SUMMARY.md # Main findings
├── papers-reviewed.json # Deduplication tracking (DOI → status)
├── papers/ # Downloaded PDFs and supplementary data
└── citations/ # Citation graph tracking
For systematic literature review:
PubMed E-utilities (no key required):
https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgihttps://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esummary.fcgihttps://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgiSemantic Scholar (free tier works, optional key for higher limits):
https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/DOI:{doi}https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/{id}/referenceshttps://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/{id}/citationsUse the find-skills script to search for relevant skills:
# From project directory
./scripts/find-skills # List all skills
./scripts/find-skills literature # Search for "literature"
./scripts/find-skills 'cite|ref' # Regex search
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Turn a broad research idea into clear, testable questions. Compare familiar and less conventional approaches, structure the selected question around its population and methods, and assess variables, feasibility, and potential theoretical contributions.
Helps build a research framework by comparing theories, mapping relationships between variables, and deriving testable hypotheses. Explores less conventional options, examines weaknesses and competing explanations, and produces diagrams with anticipated reviewer objections.
Clarify the philosophical assumptions behind a research project and check whether they fit the proposed methods. Get a reasoned research stance, draft proposal wording, and guidance for explaining how the researcher's background and values shape the study.
Plan and draft academic papers through specialized agent roles covering literature, arguments, citations, and review. Get chapter guidance, revision roadmaps, Traditional Chinese and English abstracts, and documents formatted as LaTeX, DOCX, PDF, or Markdown.
Turn a detailed outline into a philosophy or interdisciplinary manuscript. Draft chapters with repeated quality reviews, check terminology and arguments across sections, and prepare the manuscript, evaluation reports, abstract, and metadata for submission.
Simulate academic peer review through five reviewer roles tailored to the paper's field. Receive separate critiques, an editorial decision, and a prioritized revision roadmap, or check whether a revised manuscript addresses earlier comments.