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
- Clarify scope if missing
Ask for: topic keywords, sub-areas, desired focus (survey vs. foundational vs. recent), and any time range if not provided.
- 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.”
- 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)
- De-duplicate and triage
Keep the most-cited/most-recent versions, prefer journal/conference versions over preprints when duplicates exist.
- Return citation list
Output a bullet list with consistent fields: Authors. Title. Venue. Year. DOI/URL
- 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?”