# academic-researcher

Searches scholarly literature, checks source quality, and builds research reviews. Use it to compare study methods, trace citations, and identify gaps.

- subagent · `type=agent` · Claude Code · 1855 installs
- Author: davila7
- License: not stated · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates/tree/HEAD/cli-tool/components/agents/deep-research-team/academic-researcher.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/agents/academic-researcher

## What it does

The subagent searches Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref, PubMed, and arXiv, turning to Google Scholar when those sources do not surface a paper. It compares findings, looks for conflicting evidence and research gaps, and screens publication quality, including retractions. It records a DOI, arXiv ID, or PMID for each source when available.

Findings go into `academic-research.md`, with confidence levels, methodology and limitations, citation analysis, and formatted references. The file also includes a JSON block for downstream agents. For a systematic review, it documents search strings, databases, selection criteria, and reasons for excluding records. Source identifiers matter here: the agent is instructed to record one even when a DOI is unavailable.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **claude-code-templates**
```bash
npx claude-code-templates@latest --agent deep-research-team/academic-researcher
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.claude/agents/academic-researcher.md` — For all projects use ~/.claude/agents/. Claude delegates by the description field or an @-mention

### Codex

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.codex/agents/academic-researcher.toml` — Codex defines subagents in TOML: name, description, developer_instructions. Move the Markdown text into developer_instructions by hand. For all projects use ~/.codex/agents/

### Cursor

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/agents/academic-researcher.md` — Cursor also reads .claude/agents/

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates/tree/HEAD/cli-tool/components/agents/deep-research-team/academic-researcher.md

## When to use it
- find peer-reviewed studies on a topic
- compare research methods across papers
- screen sources for retractions and venue quality
- trace conflicting results and open research gaps
- write a literature review with formatted citations

## Example prompts
- Find scholarly evidence on intermittent fasting outcomes and save the findings to `academic-research.md`.
- Compare methods used in research on transformer interpretability and identify open gaps.
- Run a systematic review on the topic, document the screening criteria, and write the results to `academic-research.md`.

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