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Literature review finder
Give it a topic. Get the key academic papers found from open databases and sorted by theme.
Literature review finder is a free AI skill for the job "Think it through and decide". Give the instructions to an AI assistant that supports the required files and tools, then review its output.
Free · No account · MIT licence · Made by Alireza Rezvani
Made by Alireza Rezvani. See the original on GitHub; we copied it as it is, with its licence.
What it does
A starting set of real academic papers on your topic, found from free databases and sorted by theme. You can trust each paper because it was found in this session. It asks three questions first: how specific your question is, which framework fits, and how deep to go. It picks PICO for clinical questions, SPIDER for social ones, or a problem-solution-evaluation split for technology. It then searches PubMed and OpenAlex, which need no key, and can add Consensus if connected. It tracks searches run, unique papers and papers kept, and only cites what came back. It retries failures gently and tells you when it stops.
You give it
- Your research topic or question
- Your field
- How deep you want to go
- Date or study type limits (optional)
You get
- A search plan with framework
- Papers found, deduplicated
- Papers grouped by theme
- Counts of searches and papers
- A note on any search failures
Use it when
- You are new to a field and need the main papers fast.
- You have a clinical question and want a structured search.
- You need a reading list before writing a proposal.
- You want a search record you can show your supervisor.
How to use it
- Add it to your AI once: download it and add the folder to Claude, ChatGPT or Codex as a skill.
- Ask for the job in your own words. Your AI opens the skill when it fits.
- It works best when your AI can search the web.