Academic Scientific Research

Workflow

Use Tavily's MCP tools to search for scholarly sources, extract and verify source content, map or crawl known scholarly sites and collections, and run full literature-review research. Keep this skill focused on research planning, source selection, extraction targets, and evidence synthesis.

Treat the guidance below as base guidance; adapt it to the user's request when appropriate.

• Translate the user's question into search terms, synonyms, key entities, and likely source domains.
• Break broad questions into short subqueries under 400 characters: core concept, synonyms, method names, target population or data, benchmark or dataset, author/lab, and year range.
• Prefer scholarly and official sources when available: preprint servers, PubMed/NIH pages, journals, conference proceedings, professional societies, standards bodies, and official technical reports.
• Extract from the strongest selected pages after screening titles, snippets, source type, recency, and relevance.
• Reserve broad research synthesis for full literature reviews, research landscapes, or multi-method comparisons.
• Distinguish primary studies, review papers, preprints, editorials, guidelines, standards, and news coverage.

Research Budget