Source: https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills

When to Use

You need to find relevant papers by keyword, title, or known identifiers (e.g., Semantic Scholar Paper ID).
You want to fetch detailed metadata for a paper (abstract, venue, year, fields of study, etc.).
You need author-centric information such as an author profile and their publications.
You want to explore a citation network by traversing references or citations for a given paper.
You are building a literature review workflow that requires programmatic access to scholarly graph data.

Key Features

Paper search via the Semantic Scholar Graph API.
Paper details retrieval (e.g., abstract, venue, citations-related fields depending on requested fields).
Author details retrieval (author profile and associated papers depending on requested fields).
Citation graph traversal:
- Fetch papers that cite a target paper (citations)
- Fetch papers referenced by a target paper (references)
Optional API key support for higher rate limits via environment variable.