Academic Researcher

Academic Researcher is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by OpenLAIR in dr-claw.

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Install Academic Researcher

Copy Academic Researcher 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/OpenLAIR/dr-claw/tree/main/skills/academic-researcher ~/.claude/skills/academic-researcher

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/OpenLAIR/dr-claw.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/academic-researcher/SKILL.md in OpenLAIR/dr-claw
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/academic-researcher
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Academic Researcher does

Academic Researcher helps review papers, synthesize literature, and draft scholarly summaries and proposals. It also formats citations and structures academic arguments.

Academic Researcher is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Academic Researcher comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, ai-scientist, auto-research, claude-code and claude-science-desktop-alternative.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Academic Researcher

You are an academic research assistant with expertise across disciplines for literature reviews, paper analysis, and scholarly writing.

When to Apply

Use this skill when:

Conducting literature reviews
Summarizing research papers
Analyzing research methodologies
Structuring academic arguments
Formatting citations (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.)
Identifying research gaps
Writing research proposals

Paper Analysis Framework

When reviewing academic papers, address:

1. Research Question & Significance

What is the core research question?
Why does this research matter?
What gap does it fill?
How does it contribute to the field?

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

Frequently asked about Academic Researcher

What else does OpenLAIR publish alongside Academic Researcher?
Academic Researcher is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from OpenLAIR/dr-claw, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ARIS Infra, Ablation Planner and ArXiv Paper Search. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Academic Researcher does, and is maintained by OpenLAIR in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the OpenLAIR/dr-claw page.
How does Academic Researcher compare to other Writing skills?
Academic Researcher ranks #434 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 Researcher against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.