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+# @wentorai/research-plugins
+
+**[English](#english)** | **[中文](#中文)**
+
+---
+
+<a id="english"></a>
+
+## Research Plugins for Research-Claw
+
+An open-source collection of **173 academic research skills**, **61 MCP server configs**, **13 agent tools**, and **6 curated resource lists** for [Research-Claw](https://wentor.ai) and other AI coding agents.
+
+Built by [Wentor AI](https://wentor.ai) for the global research community.
+
+### What's Inside
+
+| Component | Count | Description |
+|-----------|-------|-------------|
+| **Skills** | 173 | Practical SKILL.md guides covering literature search, academic writing, data analysis, research methods, 16 domain specialties, and productivity tools |
+| **Agent Tools** | 13 | TypeScript API wrappers for Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, CrossRef, arXiv, PubMed, and Unpaywall |
+| **MCP Configs** | 61 | Ready-to-use MCP server configurations for reference managers, knowledge bases, research databases, and AI platforms |
+| **Curated Lists** | 6 | Hand-picked resource collections for each skill category |
+
+### Taxonomy
+
+Skills are organized into **6 categories** with **40 subcategories**:
+
+| Category | Subcategories | Skills |
+|----------|---------------|--------|
+| **literature** | search, discovery, fulltext, metadata | Paper search, citation tracking, open access |
+| **writing** | composition, polish, latex, templates, citation | Academic writing, LaTeX, reference management |
+| **analysis** | statistics, econometrics, wrangling, dataviz | Statistical methods, data cleaning, visualization |
+| **research** | methodology, deep-research, paper-review, automation, funding | Research design, systematic reviews, grant writing |
+| **domains** | 16 disciplines (CS, AI/ML, biomedical, chemistry, economics, finance, law, physics, math, ecology, etc.) | Domain-specific research methods and tools |
+| **tools** | diagram, document, code-exec, scraping, knowledge-graph, ocr-translate | Diagrams, PDF parsing, reproducible code, OCR |
+
+### Install
+
+#### As OpenClaw Plugin
+
+```bash
+openclaw plugins install @wentorai/research-plugins
+```
+
+#### As Skills Collection (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode)
+
+```bash
+npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins
+```
+
+#### Via npm
+
+```bash
+npm install @wentorai/research-plugins
+```
+
+#### Via pip
+
+```bash
+pip install research-plugins
+```
+
+### Configuration
+
+Optional: set a Semantic Scholar API key for higher rate limits:
+
+```json
+{
+  "plugins": {
+    "entries": {
+      "research-plugins": {
+        "semanticScholarApiKey": "your-key-here"
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Get a free API key at [semanticscholar.org/product/api](https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api).
+
+### Agent Tools
+
+13 tools across 6 academic API integrations, registered automatically when used as an OpenClaw plugin:
+
+| Module | Tools | API |
+|--------|-------|-----|
+| `semantic-scholar` | `search_papers`, `get_paper`, `get_citations` | Semantic Scholar |
+| `openalex` | `search_openalex`, `get_work`, `get_author_openalex` | OpenAlex |
+| `crossref` | `resolve_doi`, `search_crossref` | CrossRef |
+| `arxiv` | `search_arxiv`, `get_arxiv_paper` | arXiv |
+| `pubmed` | `search_pubmed`, `get_article` | PubMed / NCBI |
+| `unpaywall` | `find_oa_version` | Unpaywall |
+
+### Community Attribution
+
+This project curates, organizes, and enhances publicly available academic resources from across the open-source ecosystem. We are grateful to the researchers, developers, and open-source communities whose work makes this collection possible.
+
+- **Skills** are authored guides based on established research methodologies, public API documentation, and widely-used academic workflows. Where content is derived from specific open-source projects, the `source` field in each SKILL.md frontmatter links to the original.
+- **MCP Configs** reference third-party open-source MCP servers. Each config's `source` field links to the original GitHub repository. We do not host or redistribute these servers.
+- **Curated Lists** aggregate links to community resources and are provided for discovery purposes.
+
+All original content in this repository is released under the [MIT License](LICENSE). Third-party projects referenced retain their own licenses.
+
+### Contributing
+
+See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for guidelines on adding skills, MCP configs, and curated resources.
+
+### License
+
+[MIT](LICENSE) -- Copyright (c) 2026 Wentor AI
+
+---
+
+<a id="中文"></a>
+
+## Research-Claw 科研插件集
+
+一个开源的学术科研资源集合，包含 **173 个科研技能**、**61 个 MCP 服务器配置**、**13 个智能体工具** 和 **6 个精选资源列表**，为 [Research-Claw (科研龙虾)](https://wentor.ai) 及其他 AI 编程助手而构建。
+
+由 [Wentor AI](https://wentor.ai) 为全球科研社区打造。
+
+### 包含内容
+
+| 组件 | 数量 | 说明 |
+|------|------|------|
+| **技能 (Skills)** | 173 | 涵盖文献检索、学术写作、数据分析、研究方法、16 个学科领域及生产力工具的实用指南 |
+| **智能体工具** | 13 | 封装 Semantic Scholar、OpenAlex、CrossRef、arXiv、PubMed、Unpaywall 六大学术 API 的 TypeScript 工具 |
+| **MCP 配置** | 61 | 即用型 MCP 服务器配置，涵盖文献管理、知识库、学术数据库、AI 平台等 |
+| **精选列表** | 6 | 按分类整理的优质资源推荐 |
+
+### 分类体系
+
+技能按 **6 大类别** 和 **40 个子分类** 组织：
+
+| 类别 | 子分类 | 覆盖范围 |
+|------|--------|---------|
+| **文献 (literature)** | 检索、发现、全文获取、元数据 | 论文搜索、引文追踪、开放获取 |
+| **写作 (writing)** | 写作、润色、LaTeX、模板、引用 | 学术写作、LaTeX 排版、参考文献管理 |
+| **分析 (analysis)** | 统计、计量经济、数据处理、可视化 | 统计方法、数据清洗、图表制作 |
+| **研究 (research)** | 方法论、深度研究、论文评审、自动化、基金 | 研究设计、系统综述、基金申请 |
+| **学科 (domains)** | 16 个学科方向 | 各学科专属研究方法与工具 |
+| **工具 (tools)** | 图表、文档、代码执行、爬虫、知识图谱、OCR | 流程图、PDF 解析、可复现代码、OCR 翻译 |
+
+### 安装方式
+
+#### 作为 OpenClaw 插件
+
+```bash
+openclaw plugins install @wentorai/research-plugins
+```
+
+#### 作为技能集合 (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode)
+
+```bash
+npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins
+```
+
+#### 通过 npm
+
+```bash
+npm install @wentorai/research-plugins
+```
+
+#### 通过 pip
+
+```bash
+pip install research-plugins
+```
+
+### 配置
+
+可选：设置 Semantic Scholar API Key 以提高速率限制：
+
+```json
+{
+  "plugins": {
+    "entries": {
+      "research-plugins": {
+        "semanticScholarApiKey": "your-key-here"
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+在 [semanticscholar.org/product/api](https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api) 免费获取 API Key。
+
+### 社区致谢与声明
+
+本项目对互联网上公开可用的学术资源进行了遴选、整理和增强。我们感谢所有使这个集合成为可能的研究者、开发者和开源社区。
+
+- **技能** 是基于成熟研究方法、公开 API 文档和广泛使用的学术工作流编写的实用指南。凡内容源自特定开源项目的，每个 SKILL.md 的 frontmatter 中 `source` 字段均标注了原始链接。
+- **MCP 配置** 引用第三方开源 MCP 服务器，每个配置的 `source` 字段链接到原始 GitHub 仓库。我们不托管或重新分发这些服务器。
+- **精选列表** 汇集社区资源链接，仅供发现和参考之用。
+
+本仓库中的所有原创内容均以 [MIT 许可证](LICENSE) 发布。引用的第三方项目保留其各自的许可证。
+
+### 参与贡献
+
+请查阅 [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) 了解添加技能、MCP 配置和精选资源的指南。
+
+### 许可证
+
+[MIT](LICENSE) -- Copyright (c) 2026 Wentor AI

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+# Curated Analysis Resources
+
+> Hand-picked resources for academic researchers working with statistics, econometrics, data wrangling, and visualization.
+
+## Statistics
+
+### Tools & Software (R)
+- **[tidyverse](https://www.tidyverse.org/)** — Opinionated collection of R packages (dplyr, ggplot2, tidyr, etc.) for tidy data analysis.
+- **[R for Data Science (2e)](https://r4ds.hadley.nz/)** — Free online book by Hadley Wickham; the definitive introduction to data science in R.
+- **[statsmodels](https://www.statsmodels.org/)** — Python module for statistical modeling, hypothesis tests, and regression diagnostics.
+- **[JASP](https://jasp-stats.org/)** — Free, open-source GUI for Bayesian and frequentist statistics; great for teaching and exploratory analysis.
+
+### Tools & Software (Python)
+- **[SciPy](https://scipy.org/)** — Fundamental library for scientific computing; stats, optimization, linear algebra.
+- **[pingouin](https://pingouin-stats.org/)** — Simple, pandas-friendly Python package for common statistical tests (ANOVA, t-tests, correlations).
+- **[PyMC](https://www.pymc.io/)** — Probabilistic programming library for Bayesian statistical modeling and inference.
+
+### Key References
+- **[An Introduction to Statistical Learning (ISLR)](https://www.statlearning.com/)** — Free textbook with R and Python labs; accessible introduction to modern statistics and machine learning.
+- **[Seeing Theory](https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/)** — Interactive visual introduction to probability and statistics from Brown University.
+- **[Common statistical tests are linear models](https://lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-linear/)** — Concise reference showing that t-tests, ANOVA, chi-squared, etc. are all special cases of the linear model.
+
+## Econometrics
+
+### Tools & Software
+- **[Stata](https://www.stata.com/)** — Industry-standard software for econometric analysis; excellent documentation and community (ado files).
+- **[linearmodels (Python)](https://bashtage.github.io/linearmodels/)** — Panel data, IV, and system regression models for Python; extends statsmodels.
+- **[fixest (R)](https://lrberge.github.io/fixest/)** — Blazing-fast fixed-effects estimation in R; supports multi-way clustering and IV.
+- **[CausalInference (Python)](https://causalinferenceinpython.org/)** — Open tutorials on difference-in-differences, RDD, IV, and synthetic control in Python.
+
+### Key References
+- **[Causal Inference: The Mixtape (Cunningham)](https://mixtape.scunning.com/)** — Free online textbook covering modern causal inference methods with Stata and R code.
+- **[The Effect (Huntington-Klein)](https://theeffectbook.net/)** — Free book on research design and causal inference; R and Python examples.
+- **[Mostly Harmless Econometrics](https://www.mostlyharmlesseconometrics.com/)** — Angrist and Pischke's concise guide to applied econometric methods.
+
+## Data Wrangling
+
+### Tools & Software
+- **[pandas](https://pandas.pydata.org/)** — The core Python library for tabular data manipulation and analysis.
+- **[Polars](https://pola.rs/)** — Lightning-fast DataFrame library in Rust with Python bindings; ideal for large datasets.
+- **[OpenRefine](https://openrefine.org/)** — Free tool for cleaning messy data, reconciling entities, and transforming formats.
+- **[data.table (R)](https://rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table/)** — High-performance R package for fast aggregation and joins on large data.
+
+### Online Courses & Tutorials
+- **[Pandas Getting Started Tutorials](https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/getting_started/intro_tutorials/)** — Official step-by-step tutorials covering core pandas operations.
+- **[Tidy Data (Wickham, 2014)](https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v059i10)** — Foundational paper on data structure principles; essential reading before any analysis.
+
+## Data Visualization
+
+### Plotting Libraries
+- **[Matplotlib](https://matplotlib.org/)** — Foundational Python plotting library; full control over every element.
+- **[ggplot2](https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/)** — Grammar of Graphics implementation in R; the gold standard for statistical graphics.
+- **[Plotly](https://plotly.com/python/)** — Interactive, publication-quality charts in Python, R, and JavaScript.
+- **[Observable Plot](https://observablehq.com/plot/)** — Concise JavaScript plotting library for exploratory data visualization.
+- **[seaborn](https://seaborn.pydata.org/)** — High-level Python interface to Matplotlib for attractive statistical graphics.
+
+### Color Palettes & Design
+- **[ColorBrewer](https://colorbrewer2.org/)** — Cartographer-designed color schemes that are colorblind-safe and print-friendly.
+- **[Scientific Colour Maps (Crameri)](https://www.fabiocrameri.ch/colourmaps/)** — Perceptually uniform, colorblind-friendly palettes specifically designed for scientific visualization.
+- **[Datawrapper Blog: Color Guide](https://blog.datawrapper.de/colorguide/)** — Practical guide to choosing and using color in data visualization.
+
+### Key References
+- **[Fundamentals of Data Visualization (Wilke)](https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/)** — Free online book covering principles of effective data visualization; language-agnostic.
+- **[Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures (Rougier et al.)](https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003833)** — Concise, practical guidelines for publication-ready figures.

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+# Curated Domain-Specific Resources
+
+> Hand-picked resources covering 16 academic domains, each with key tools, databases, and references.
+
+## Computer Science
+
+- **[DBLP](https://dblp.org/)** — Comprehensive bibliography of CS publications; clean metadata and open API.
+- **[Papers With Code](https://paperswithcode.com/)** — Links ML/AI papers to code implementations and benchmark leaderboards.
+- **[ACM Digital Library](https://dl.acm.org/)** — Full text of ACM publications plus the Guide to Computing Literature.
+- **[CS Rankings](https://csrankings.org/)** — Metrics-based ranking of CS departments by publication output at top venues.
+
+## AI & Machine Learning
+
+- **[Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/)** — Open platform for models, datasets, and spaces; the hub of open-source AI.
+- **[arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG](https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent)** — Daily preprints in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
+- **[Distill.pub](https://distill.pub/)** — Clear, interactive explanations of machine learning concepts (archived but invaluable).
+- **[Awesome Machine Learning](https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning)** — Curated list of ML frameworks, libraries, and tools across languages.
+
+## Biomedical
+
+- **[PubMed / MEDLINE](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)** — Authoritative index of biomedical literature with MeSH-controlled vocabulary.
+- **[UniProt](https://www.uniprot.org/)** — Comprehensive protein sequence and functional annotation database.
+- **[NCBI GEO](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/)** — Public repository for high-throughput gene expression and genomics datasets.
+- **[BioRender](https://www.biorender.com/)** — Scientific illustration tool with thousands of pre-made biology icons and templates.
+
+## Chemistry
+
+- **[PubChem](https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)** — Open chemistry database with compound, substance, and bioassay data (110M+ compounds).
+- **[RDKit](https://www.rdkit.org/)** — Open-source cheminformatics toolkit for molecular manipulation and descriptor calculation.
+- **[Reaxys](https://www.reaxys.com/)** — Elsevier's curated reaction and substance database for synthetic chemistry.
+- **[ChemRxiv](https://chemrxiv.org/)** — Preprint server for chemistry from ACS, RSC, and GDCh.
+
+## Economics
+
+- **[NBER Working Papers](https://www.nber.org/papers)** — Influential working paper series covering all areas of economics.
+- **[FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/)** — 800,000+ economic time series; essential for macroeconomic research.
+- **[AEA RCT Registry](https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/)** — Registry for randomized controlled trials in economics and social science.
+- **[RePEc / IDEAS](https://ideas.repec.org/)** — Largest open bibliographic database for economics with rankings and author profiles.
+
+## Finance
+
+- **[WRDS](https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/)** — Wharton Research Data Services; gateway to CRSP, Compustat, and other finance databases.
+- **[Ken French Data Library](https://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/ken.french/data_library.html)** — Factor portfolios and returns data; essential for asset pricing research.
+- **[QuantLib](https://www.quantlib.org/)** — Open-source library for quantitative finance: derivatives pricing, risk management.
+
+## Law
+
+- **[Google Scholar Case Law](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=&hl=en&as_sdt=4)** — Free search of US case law and legal journals.
+- **[SSRN Legal Scholarship Network](https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/lsn/)** — Preprints and working papers across all legal disciplines.
+- **[CourtListener (Free Law Project)](https://www.courtlistener.com/)** — Free, open archive of US court opinions, oral arguments, and judicial data.
+
+## Social Science
+
+- **[ICPSR](https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/)** — Largest archive of social science data; 16,000+ datasets with documentation.
+- **[Qualtrics](https://www.qualtrics.com/)** — Survey platform widely used in social science research; free academic accounts available.
+- **[World Values Survey](https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/)** — Cross-national time-series survey of human beliefs and values (120+ countries).
+
+## Education
+
+- **[ERIC](https://eric.ed.gov/)** — IES-sponsored database of education research and information.
+- **[OECD Education Data](https://data.oecd.org/education.htm)** — International education statistics and indicators from OECD countries.
+- **[What Works Clearinghouse](https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/)** — Evidence reviews of education programs, policies, and practices.
+
+## Physics
+
+- **[arXiv Physics](https://arxiv.org/archive/physics)** — Preprint server that physicists have used since 1991; the original open access platform.
+- **[INSPIRE-HEP](https://inspirehep.net/)** — High-energy physics literature database with citation analysis and author disambiguation.
+- **[NIST Physical Reference Data](https://www.nist.gov/pml/productsservices/physical-reference-data)** — Fundamental physical constants, atomic spectra, and reference datasets.
+
+## Ecology & Environmental Science
+
+- **[GBIF](https://www.gbif.org/)** — Global Biodiversity Information Facility; 2B+ occurrence records for biodiversity research.
+- **[NASA Earthdata](https://earthdata.nasa.gov/)** — Free access to NASA's Earth observation data across atmosphere, land, and ocean.
+- **[Movebank](https://www.movebank.org/)** — Free platform for managing, sharing, and analyzing animal movement data.
+
+## Mathematics
+
+- **[MathSciNet](https://mathscinet.ams.org/)** — AMS's comprehensive reviews and bibliography database for mathematics.
+- **[OEIS](https://oeis.org/)** — The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences; indispensable for combinatorics and number theory.
+- **[Lean Community](https://leanprover-community.github.io/)** — Resources for the Lean proof assistant and Mathlib library; growing role in formalized math.
+
+## Humanities
+
+- **[JSTOR](https://www.jstor.org/)** — Digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources; strong humanities coverage.
+- **[HathiTrust Digital Library](https://www.hathitrust.org/)** — 17M+ digitized volumes from major research libraries; full-text search for public domain works.
+- **[Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/)** — 70,000+ free eBooks; essential primary source collection for literary and historical research.
+
+## Business & Management
+
+- **[Harvard Business Review](https://hbr.org/)** — Practitioner-oriented management research and case studies.
+- **[ABI/INFORM (ProQuest)](https://about.proquest.com/en/products-services/abi_inform_complete/)** — Comprehensive business database covering journals, dissertations, and trade publications.
+- **[Crunchbase](https://www.crunchbase.com/)** — Company, funding, and investor data; widely used in entrepreneurship and innovation research.
+
+## Pharmaceutical Science
+
+- **[DrugBank](https://go.drugbank.com/)** — Comprehensive database of drug and drug target information.
+- **[ClinicalTrials.gov](https://clinicaltrials.gov/)** — Registry of clinical studies conducted worldwide; 400,000+ studies.
+- **[ChEMBL](https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/)** — Open bioactivity database of drug-like compounds; curated from medicinal chemistry literature.
+
+## Geoscience
+
+- **[USGS Publications](https://pubs.usgs.gov/)** — Free access to all US Geological Survey scientific publications and data.
+- **[Pangaea](https://www.pangaea.de/)** — Open-access repository for earth and environmental science data.
+- **[GeoRef (AGI)](https://www.americangeosciences.org/georef)** — Comprehensive bibliographic database for the geosciences (4M+ references).

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+# Curated Literature Resources
+
+> Hand-picked resources for academic researchers working with literature search, discovery, and management.
+
+## Search
+
+### Tools & Software
+- **[Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/)** — The most widely used academic search engine; covers journals, theses, books, and patents across all disciplines.
+- **[Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/)** — AI-powered search engine from AI2 with TLDR summaries, citation context, and influence scores.
+- **[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/)** — Free, open catalog of the global research system (replaces Microsoft Academic); full API access for bibliometric analysis.
+- **[Dimensions](https://www.dimensions.ai/)** — Linked research knowledge system connecting publications, grants, patents, datasets, and clinical trials.
+- **[Connected Papers](https://www.connectedpapers.com/)** — Visual graph tool that builds a similarity network around a seed paper to find related work.
+- **[PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)** — NCBI's authoritative database for biomedical and life sciences literature (35M+ citations).
+- **[Web of Science](https://www.webofscience.com/)** — Clarivate's curated citation index; gold standard for impact metrics (JIF, ESI).
+- **[Scopus](https://www.scopus.com/)** — Elsevier's abstract and citation database; broader journal coverage than WoS in some fields.
+
+### Key References
+- **[The Lens](https://www.lens.org/)** — Free scholarly and patent search with open data linking; great for innovation mapping.
+- **[CORE](https://core.ac.uk/)** — Aggregates open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide (200M+ records).
+
+## Discovery
+
+### Tools & Software
+- **[Research Rabbit](https://www.researchrabbit.ai/)** — Free tool that recommends papers based on your collections; "Spotify for papers."
+- **[Elicit](https://elicit.com/)** — AI research assistant that finds relevant papers, extracts claims, and summarizes findings.
+- **[Litmaps](https://www.litmaps.com/)** — Dynamic citation mapping that visualizes how papers connect over time; automatic update alerts.
+- **[Google Scholar Alerts](https://scholar.google.com/scholar_alerts)** — Email notifications for new papers matching your keywords or citing your work.
+
+### Key References
+- **[Inciteful](https://inciteful.xyz/)** — Build a network of papers from a seed article; identify important but overlooked connections.
+
+## Fulltext Access
+
+### Tools & Software
+- **[Unpaywall](https://unpaywall.org/)** — Browser extension that finds legal free full-text PDFs via open access repositories (20M+ articles).
+- **[CORE Discovery](https://core.ac.uk/services/discovery)** — Browser extension to find free OA copies of paywalled articles.
+- **[Open Access Button](https://openaccessbutton.org/)** — Locates free legal copies or requests them directly from authors.
+
+### Preprint Servers
+- **[arXiv](https://arxiv.org/)** — The foundational preprint server for physics, math, CS, and quantitative biology.
+- **[bioRxiv](https://www.biorxiv.org/)** — Preprint server for the biological sciences, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
+- **[SSRN](https://www.ssrn.com/)** — Leading preprint platform for social sciences, economics, and law.
+- **[OSF Preprints](https://osf.io/preprints/)** — Aggregator across 30+ preprint services; part of the Open Science Framework.
+
+## Metadata & Metrics
+
+### Tools & Software
+- **[DOI.org](https://www.doi.org/)** — Resolve any DOI to its metadata and landing page.
+- **[Crossref](https://www.crossref.org/)** — Open metadata API for 140M+ records; the backbone of scholarly linking.
+- **[OpenCitations](https://opencitations.net/)** — Open citation data (COCI index); free alternative to proprietary citation databases.
+- **[Altmetric](https://www.altmetric.com/)** — Tracks attention to research across social media, news, policy, and patents.
+- **[Scimago Journal Rank (SJR)](https://www.scimagojr.com/)** — Free journal ranking and visualization portal based on Scopus data.
+- **[CoCites](https://www.cocites.com/)** — Co-citation analysis tool to find the most relevant papers in any field cluster.

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+# Curated Research Methods Resources
+
+> Hand-picked resources for academic researchers working with methodology, systematic review, automation, and funding.
+
+## Methodology
+
+### Research Design Guides
+- **[Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods (Creswell)](https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/research-design/book270550)** — Standard textbook on research design across paradigms; used in most graduate methods courses.
+- **[EQUATOR Network](https://www.equator-network.org/)** — Library of reporting guidelines (CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA, etc.) for health research.
+- **[NIH Research Methods Resources](https://researchmethodsresources.nih.gov/)** — Guides on study design, sample size estimation, and statistical analysis plans from NIH.
+- **[Research Design Canvas](https://www.researchdesigncanvas.com/)** — Visual tool for mapping research questions, methods, and expected outcomes on a single page.
+
+### Design of Experiments (DOE)
+- **[JMP Statistical Discovery](https://www.jmp.com/en/statistics-knowledge-portal/design-of-experiments.html)** — Comprehensive DOE knowledge portal with interactive examples.
+- **[pyDOE2](https://github.com/clicumu/pyDOE2)** — Python library for generating factorial, Latin Hypercube, and composite experimental designs.
+- **[Design-Expert (Stat-Ease)](https://www.statease.com/software/design-expert/)** — GUI software for designing and analyzing multi-factor experiments; free trial.
+
+## Deep Research & Systematic Review
+
+### Tools & Software
+- **[Covidence](https://www.covidence.org/)** — Streamlined systematic review management: screening, extraction, quality assessment. Free for Cochrane authors.
+- **[Rayyan](https://www.rayyan.ai/)** — Free AI-assisted tool for systematic review screening; supports team collaboration.
+- **[ASReview](https://asreview.nl/)** — Open-source active-learning tool that prioritizes relevant papers during screening; dramatically reduces workload.
+- **[PRISMA 2020](http://www.prisma-statement.org/)** — Updated reporting checklist and flow diagram for systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
+- **[RevMan (Cochrane)](https://training.cochrane.org/online-learning/core-software/revman)** — Free software for preparing Cochrane systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
+
+### Key References
+- **[Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews](https://training.cochrane.org/handbook)** — The definitive methodological guide for systematic reviews in health and beyond.
+- **[PROSPERO](https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/)** — International registry of systematic review protocols; register before you begin.
+
+## Paper Review & Summarization
+
+### Tools & Software
+- **[ScholarAI](https://scholarai.io/)** — AI plugin that finds, summarizes, and extracts key claims from academic papers.
+- **[Consensus](https://consensus.app/)** — AI search engine that extracts and synthesizes claims from peer-reviewed papers.
+- **[SciSpace (Typeset)](https://typeset.io/)** — AI copilot for reading papers: highlights, explains, and cross-references passages.
+- **[OpenReview](https://openreview.net/)** — Open platform for peer review used by ICLR, NeurIPS, and other top ML conferences.
+- **[Semantic Reader (S2)](https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/semantic-reader)** — AI-augmented PDF reader from Semantic Scholar with inline citation context and term definitions.
+
+## Research Automation
+
+### AI Scientist & Workflow Tools
+- **[PaperQA2](https://github.com/Future-House/paper-qa)** — RAG system that answers questions using full-text scientific papers with proper citations.
+- **[OpenScholar](https://github.com/AkariAsai/OpenScholar)** — Open-source scientific literature QA agent from University of Washington.
+- **[Snakemake](https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/)** — Reproducible and scalable workflow engine for data analysis pipelines; Python-based.
+- **[Nextflow](https://www.nextflow.io/)** — Workflow manager for computational pipelines; strong in bioinformatics and genomics.
+- **[DVC (Data Version Control)](https://dvc.org/)** — Git for data and ML experiments; tracks datasets, models, and metrics alongside code.
+- **[MLflow](https://mlflow.org/)** — Open-source platform for managing the ML lifecycle: tracking, packaging, deployment.
+
+## Funding & Open Science
+
+### Grant Databases
+- **[NIH Reporter](https://reporter.nih.gov/)** — Searchable database of NIH-funded research projects; essential for US biomedical grant intelligence.
+- **[NSF Award Search](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/)** — Browse and search all NSF-funded awards; useful for understanding funding landscapes.
+- **[Dimensions Grants](https://app.dimensions.ai/discover/grant)** — Global grant database linking funders, publications, patents, and clinical trials.
+- **[Europe PMC Grant Finder](https://europepmc.org/grantfinder)** — Search grants from major European and international funders.
+
+### Open Science Platforms
+- **[OSF (Open Science Framework)](https://osf.io/)** — Free platform for project management, preregistration, preprints, and data sharing.
+- **[Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/)** — CERN-hosted open repository for datasets, software, and publications; DOI minting included.
+- **[protocols.io](https://www.protocols.io/)** — Open-access platform for sharing, discovering, and discussing research protocols.
+- **[ORCID](https://orcid.org/)** — Persistent digital identifier for researchers; connects your work across systems.

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+# Curated Research Productivity Tools
+
+> Hand-picked tools for academic researchers covering diagrams, documents, code execution, scraping, knowledge graphs, and OCR/translation.
+
+## Diagrams & Visualization
+
+### Tools & Software
+- **[Mermaid](https://mermaid.js.org/)** — Text-based diagramming tool that renders flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts, and more from Markdown-like syntax.
+- **[PlantUML](https://plantuml.com/)** — Open-source tool for creating UML diagrams from plain text; supports sequence, class, activity, and many other diagram types.
+- **[draw.io (diagrams.net)](https://www.drawio.com/)** — Free, open-source diagramming tool with desktop and browser versions; exports to SVG, PNG, PDF.
+- **[Excalidraw](https://excalidraw.com/)** — Virtual whiteboard with a hand-drawn aesthetic; great for informal research diagrams and brainstorming.
+- **[Graphviz](https://graphviz.org/)** — Open-source graph visualization software; the DOT language is a standard for rendering directed and undirected graphs.
+- **[TikZ/PGF (LaTeX)](https://tikz.dev/)** — Programmatic figure drawing in LaTeX; unmatched precision for publication-ready technical diagrams.
+
+### Key References
+- **[Mermaid Live Editor](https://mermaid.live/)** — Browser-based editor for writing and previewing Mermaid diagrams in real time.
+- **[D2 Language](https://d2lang.com/)** — Modern declarative diagramming language; generates clean, readable diagrams from text.
+
+## Document Processing
+
+### PDF Tools
+- **[GROBID](https://github.com/kermitt2/grobid)** — ML library for extracting structured metadata and full text from scholarly PDFs; powers many academic tools.
+- **[PyMuPDF (fitz)](https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/)** — Fast Python binding for MuPDF; extracts text, images, and annotations from PDFs.
+- **[pdfplumber](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber)** — Python library for extracting text, tables, and metadata from PDFs with precise positional data.
+- **[Marker](https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker)** — Converts PDF to Markdown with high accuracy; handles academic papers, books, and slides.
+- **[Nougat (Meta)](https://github.com/facebookresearch/nougat)** — Neural OCR for academic PDFs; converts scanned papers to structured Markdown with math.
+
+### Format Converters
+- **[Pandoc](https://pandoc.org/)** — Universal document converter: Markdown, LaTeX, DOCX, HTML, EPUB, and 40+ other formats.
+- **[Quarto](https://quarto.org/)** — Next-generation scientific publishing system; combines Jupyter, R Markdown, and Pandoc into one tool.
+- **[nbconvert](https://nbconvert.readthedocs.io/)** — Convert Jupyter notebooks to HTML, PDF, LaTeX, Markdown, and slides.
+
+## Code Execution & Notebooks
+
+### Notebook Environments
+- **[Jupyter](https://jupyter.org/)** — The standard interactive computing environment; supports Python, R, Julia, and 100+ kernels.
+- **[Google Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/)** — Free cloud-hosted Jupyter notebooks with GPU/TPU access; zero setup required.
+- **[Observable](https://observablehq.com/)** — Reactive JavaScript notebooks for data visualization and exploratory analysis.
+- **[Deepnote](https://deepnote.com/)** — Collaborative data science notebook with real-time editing, SQL integration, and scheduling.
+
+### Sandboxes & Reproducibility
+- **[Binder (mybinder.org)](https://mybinder.org/)** — Turn any Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooks; one-click reproducible environments.
+- **[Docker](https://www.docker.com/)** — Containerization platform for creating reproducible computational environments.
+- **[Pixi](https://pixi.sh/)** — Fast, cross-platform package manager built on conda-forge; reproducible environments from a single lockfile.
+- **[renv (R)](https://rstudio.github.io/renv/)** — Reproducible R environments; records and restores exact package versions per project.
+
+## Web Scraping & APIs
+
+### Scraping Tools
+- **[Scrapy](https://scrapy.org/)** — Fast, high-level Python web crawling and scraping framework.
+- **[Beautiful Soup](https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/)** — Python library for parsing HTML and XML; simple API for navigating and searching parse trees.
+- **[Playwright](https://playwright.dev/)** — Browser automation library from Microsoft; handles JavaScript-rendered pages in Python, Node, and .NET.
+- **[Selenium](https://www.selenium.dev/)** — Browser automation framework; the established tool for dynamic page scraping and testing.
+
+### API Clients & Wrappers
+- **[httpx](https://www.python-httpx.org/)** — Modern async-capable HTTP client for Python; successor to requests.
+- **[Crossref API](https://api.crossref.org/)** — Free REST API for querying 140M+ scholarly metadata records.
+- **[OpenAlex API](https://docs.openalex.org/)** — Fully open API for the global research graph; works, authors, institutions, topics.
+- **[Unpaywall API](https://unpaywall.org/products/api)** — REST API to find open-access copies of papers by DOI.
+
+## Knowledge Graph & RAG
+
+### Knowledge Graph Tools
+- **[Neo4j](https://neo4j.com/)** — Leading graph database; Cypher query language, free Community Edition.
+- **[NetworkX](https://networkx.org/)** — Python package for creating, manipulating, and analyzing complex networks.
+- **[Gephi](https://gephi.org/)** — Open-source network visualization and analysis platform; handles large graphs with interactive exploration.
+- **[VOSviewer](https://www.vosviewer.com/)** — Free tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks (co-citation, co-authorship, keyword co-occurrence).
+
+### RAG Frameworks
+- **[LlamaIndex](https://www.llamaindex.ai/)** — Data framework for building RAG applications; connects LLMs to external data sources.
+- **[LangChain](https://www.langchain.com/)** — Framework for developing LLM-powered applications with retrieval, agents, and chains.
+- **[ChromaDB](https://www.trychroma.com/)** — Open-source embedding database for building AI applications with semantic search.
+- **[PaperQA2](https://github.com/Future-House/paper-qa)** — Purpose-built RAG for scientific literature; retrieves, reads, and cites full-text papers.
+
+## OCR & Translation
+
+### OCR Tools
+- **[Tesseract OCR](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract)** — Open-source OCR engine maintained by Google; supports 100+ languages.
+- **[EasyOCR](https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR)** — Python OCR library with ready-to-use models for 80+ languages; simple API.
+- **[PaddleOCR](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR)** — High-accuracy multilingual OCR toolkit from Baidu; excels at CJK text and table recognition.
+- **[Mathpix](https://mathpix.com/)** — AI-powered tool for converting handwritten or printed math equations to LaTeX; also handles tables and chemistry.
+
+### Translation Services
+- **[DeepL](https://www.deepl.com/)** — AI translator known for high-quality European and Asian language translations; API available.
+- **[Google Cloud Translation](https://cloud.google.com/translate)** — Neural machine translation supporting 130+ languages; free tier available.
+- **[Argos Translate](https://www.argosopentech.com/)** — Open-source offline translation library built on OpenNMT; fully self-hostable.
+- **[GT4Sci (Google Translate for Science)](https://translate.google.com/)** — While not science-specific, Google Translate with domain glossary uploads handles technical text reasonably well.