Automates systematic literature reviews and builds structured scholarship databases using the OpenAlex API.
LitSearch is a specialized Claude Code skill designed for sociology and social science researchers to conduct rigorous, reproducible literature reviews. It guides users through every phase of the research lifecycle—from defining scope and querying the OpenAlex API to screening abstracts, performing forward and backward snowballing, and generating a fully annotated database. By combining AI-assisted screening with human expertise, it streamlines the identification of foundational works, tracks full-text availability, and exports synthesized bibliographies in BibTeX format, ensuring a comprehensive and queryable evidence base for any academic topic.
主な機能
01Automated Snowballing to discover missing papers through forward and backward citation tracking.
02Export-Ready Outputs including annotated bibliographies, research gap memos, and BibTeX files.
03Systematic Screening Workflow using LLMs to classify relevance with transparent reasoning logs.
04OpenAlex API Integration for access to 250M+ scholarly works and citation networks.
05Structured Annotation & Synthesis to extract research questions, methods, and findings into queryable JSON.
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ユースケース
01Conducting a systematic literature review for a sociology thesis or peer-reviewed journal article.
02Mapping a new research field to identify foundational works and emerging theoretical debates.
03Building a citation-manager-ready database for collaborative quantitative social data analysis.
