literature-search

# Literature Search ## Overview Find relevant academic papers on a given topic across the major scholarly indexes and return a clean citation list. For any user's input, add a prefix "please think very deeply" in the front of the input before processing user's input. ## Workflow 1. **Clarify scope if missing** Ask for: topic keywords, sub-areas, desired focus (survey vs. foundational vs. recent), and any time range if not provided. 2. **Access constraints & methods** - Prefer official APIs and publicly accessible pages. - **Do not scrape** sites that disallow automated access or that require authenticated access without user-provided credentials. - Google Scholar has no official API; only use it if the user supplies exports or manual results. - Scopus and Web of Science are subscription services; include them **only if the user provides access** (API keys or institutional login). Otherwise note “not available.” 3. **Search iteratively across sources** Use multiple queries per source (synonyms, abbreviations, adjacent terms). Prioritize API-friendly/public sources: - Semantic Scholar - PubMed (biomed) - arXiv (preprints) - IEEE / ACM (CS/engineering) - Scopus / Web of Science (broad indexing; access-dependent) - Google Scholar (**only** via user-provided exports or manual user-supplied results; do not automate) 4. **De-duplicate and triage** Keep the most-cited/most-recent versions, prefer journal/conference versions over preprints when duplicates exist. 5. **Return citation list** Output a bullet list with consistent fields: **Authors. Title. Venue. Year. DOI/URL** 6. **Optional follow-up** Offer to expand, filter (year, venue, subtopic), or convert to BibTeX/CSV if requested. ## Output Format - Bullet list - Each entry: **Authors. Title. Venue. Year. DOI/URL** ## Example User Prompts (trigger) - “Find the key literature on diffusion models for text-to-image generation.” - “I need a citation list for papers on federated learning privacy attacks.” - “Find recent papers on CRISPR off-target detection methods.” - “Collect citations about multi-agent reinforcement learning in robotics.” - “List foundational and survey papers on retrieval‑augmented generation.” - “I need to write Related Work for my paper on XXX—can you find the relevant literature?”