Academic Paper Review

by HezaoHezao

Academic Paper Review is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by HezaoHezao in poirot.

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Install Academic Paper Review

Copy Academic Paper Review into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/HezaoHezao/poirot/tree/master/poirot/backend/agents/skill/builtin_skills/research/academic-paper-review ~/.claude/skills/academic-paper-review

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/HezaoHezao/poirot.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: poirot/backend/agents/skill/builtin_skills/research/academic-paper-review/SKILL.md in HezaoHezao/poirot
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/academic-paper-review
Collection: One of 37 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Academic Paper Review does

Produces structured, peer-review-quality analyses of academic papers, covering methodology assessment, strengths, weaknesses, and actionable recommendations.

Academic Paper Review is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Academic Paper Review comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-memory, agent-skill, agent-skills and agentic-ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

User provides a paper URL (arXiv, DOI, conference proceedings)
User asks to "review", "analyze", "critique", "assess", or "summarize" a research paper
User wants to understand strengths and weaknesses of a study
User requests a peer-review-style evaluation

Review Methodology

Phase 1: Paper Comprehension

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Academic Paper Review

What else does HezaoHezao publish alongside Academic Paper Review?
Academic Paper Review is one of 37 skills that DirSkills catalogs from HezaoHezao/poirot, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ArXiv Research, Architecture Diagram and Blogwatcher. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Academic Paper Review does, and is maintained by HezaoHezao in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the HezaoHezao/poirot page.
How does Academic Paper Review compare to other Writing skills?
Academic Paper Review ranks #845 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Academic Paper Review against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.