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By mkurman/zorai (GitHub) · research · 327 stars · scanned at commit 8ea1fc3
Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search Google Scholar and PubMed for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find papers, verify citation information, convert DOIs to BibTeX, or ensure reference accuracy in scientific writing.
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Runs commands on your computer
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- skills/scientific-skills/citation-management/SKILL.md, line 184
python scripts/extract_metadata.py --doi 10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2 - skills/scientific-skills/citation-management/SKILL.md, line 222
python scripts/validate_citations.py references.bib - skills/scientific-skills/citation-management/SKILL.md, line 254
python scripts/format_bibtex.py references.bib - skills/scientific-skills/citation-management/SKILL.md, line 289
python scripts/doi_to_bibtex.py 10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2 - skills/scientific-skills/citation-management/SKILL.md, line 430
python scripts/search_google_scholar.py "transformer neural networks" \ - skills/scientific-skills/citation-management/SKILL.md, line 486
python scripts/doi_to_bibtex.py --input dois.txt --output references.bib - skills/scientific-skills/citation-management/SKILL.md, line 499
python scripts/format_bibtex.py messy_references.bib \ - skills/scientific-skills/citation-management/SKILL.md, line 531
python scripts/search_google_scholar.py "AlphaFold protein structure" \ - skills/scientific-skills/citation-management/SKILL.md, line 631
pip install requests # HTTP requests for APIs - skills/scientific-skills/citation-management/SKILL.md, line 645
pip install crossref-commons # Enhanced CrossRef API access
Downloads and installs other software
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- skills/scientific-skills/citation-management/SKILL.md, line 636
pip install scholarly # Google Scholar API wrapper - skills/scientific-skills/citation-management/SKILL.md, line 638
pip install selenium # For more robust Scholar scraping - skills/scientific-skills/citation-management/SKILL.md, line 645
pip install crossref-commons # Enhanced CrossRef API access - skills/scientific-skills/citation-management/SKILL.md, line 646
pip install pylatexenc # LaTeX special character handling - skills/scientific-skills/citation-management/scripts/search_google_scholar.py, line 7
Install with: pip install scholarly - skills/scientific-skills/citation-management/scripts/search_google_scholar.py, line 22
print('Warning: scholarly library not installed. Install with: pip install scholarly', file=sys.stderr) - skills/scientific-skills/citation-management/scripts/search_google_scholar.py, line 35
raise ImportError('scholarly library required. Install with: pip install scholarly') - skills/scientific-skills/citation-management/scripts/search_google_scholar.py, line 239
print('Install with: pip install scholarly', file=sys.stderr)
Connects to the internet
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Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'citation-management' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'citation-management' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named citation-management already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/mkurman/zorai' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8ea1fc3ae126b6e103b8508bacd8f5aa60b6f4ad' -- 'skills/scientific-skills/citation-management' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/scientific-skills/citation-management' ~/.agents/skills/'citation-management' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'citation-management' ~/.claude/skills/'citation-management' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
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| 2026-11-13 | 8ea1fc3 | 75 |