Can I get citation counts and DOI information?

Yes, if the Semantic Scholar MCP is available, the skill can automatically search for the papers online to supplement your summaries with citation counts, DOIs, and journal metadata.

What is the difference between Brief and Detailed mode?

Brief mode generates a single Markdown table (paper-summary.md) for quick comparison, while Detailed mode creates individual Markdown report files for every paper processed.

How does it handle large numbers of papers without crashing?

The skill uses a serial processing architecture and a dedicated sub-agent for each document. This isolates the context for every paper, preventing token limit issues and ensuring high-quality analysis for every file.

Which file formats are supported?

The skill natively supports PDF, Markdown (.md), and plain text (.txt) files found in your local directories or specified via glob patterns.

Does it display results immediately or at the end?

To keep the conversation clean, the skill tracks progress silently using a todo list and provides a comprehensive summary of all results only after the entire batch is completed.

Academic Paper Summarizer

Name: Academic Paper Summarizer
Author: Leeszzz

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Productivity & Workflow

Automates batch processing and summarization of academic papers into structured tables or detailed analysis reports.

The Paper Summarizer skill empowers Claude to handle high-volume academic literature reviews by processing multiple PDF, Markdown, or text files in a stable, serial manner. By leveraging a dedicated paper-reader sub-agent, it ensures context isolation for each document, preventing the common issue of context overflow during large-scale tasks. Users can toggle between a 'Brief' mode for comparative summary tables and a 'Detailed' mode for individual deep-dive reports. With built-in progress tracking and optional Semantic Scholar integration for citation counts and DOI data, it significantly reduces the manual labor involved in literature mapping and research synthesis.

Key Features

010 GitHub stars

02Batch processing of PDFs and Markdown files via glob patterns or directory scanning.

03Real-time progress tracking with per-file status updates during processing.

04Optional Semantic Scholar integration for citation counts, DOIs, and metadata enrichment.

05Context isolation using a sub-agent to ensure stability across multiple documents.

06Dual-mode output: Brief comparative tables or detailed individual analysis reports.

Use Cases

01Rapidly scanning a directory of research papers to create a comparative summary table.

02Generating detailed individual analysis reports for a set of specific conference papers.

03Enriching local PDF summaries with live citation data and journal information for literature reviews.

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add leeszzz/zzz-plugins-marketplace paper-summarize

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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