lit-search
CommunityTurn OpenAlex into reproducible literature DB.
Authornealcaren
Version1.0.0
Installs0
System Documentation
What problem does it solve?
This skill provides a structured, repeatable workflow to build, manage, and update a literature database from OpenAlex search results, enabling transparent screening, snowballing, annotation, and synthesis for sociology research.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Phase-driven workflow: guides users through scope, search, screening, snowballing, full-text acquisition, annotation, and synthesis.
- OpenAlex integration: leverages the OpenAlex API with pagination and metadata extraction for reproducible results.
- Structured outputs: produces machine-readable JSON databases and human-ready documents ready for reporting.
- Use Case: you want to compile a topic-specific literature base for a qualitative sociology project, then annotate key papers and generate a synthesis.
Quick Start
Instruct the skill to initialize Phase 0 with your topic and preferred date range.
Dependency Matrix
Required Modules
None requiredComponents
Standard package💻 Claude Code Installation
Recommended: Let Claude install automatically. Simply copy and paste the text below to Claude Code.
Please help me install this Skill: Name: lit-search Download link: https://github.com/nealcaren/sociology-writing-suite/archive/main.zip#lit-search Please download this .zip file, extract it, and install it in the .claude/skills/ directory.
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