Search academic literature using Semantic Scholar, arXiv, and OpenAlex APIs. Returns structured JSONL with title, authors, year, venue, abstract, citations, and BibTeX. Use when the user needs to find papers, check related work, or build a bibliography.

Literature Search Search multiple academic databases to find relevant papers. Input $ARGUMENTS — The search query (natural language) Scripts Semantic Scholar (primary — best for ML/AI, has BibTeX) Key flags: peer reviewed only , top conferences , min citations N , venue NeurIPS ICML arXiv (latest preprints) OpenAlex (broadest coverage, free, no API key) Merge & Deduplicate CrossRef (DOI based lookup, broadest type coverage) Key flags: bibtex (output .bib format), rows N Download arXiv Source (get .tex files) Key flags: arxiv id 1706.03762 , metadata , max results N Generate BibTeX from results Workflow 1. Expand the user's query into 2 4 complementary search queries 2. Run Semantic Scholar search (primary) with expanded queries 3. Run arXiv for very recent preprints (< 3 months) 4. Optionally run OpenAlex for broader coverage 5. Merge and deduplicate results 6. Rank by: citations (0.3) + recency (0.3) + venue quality (0.2) + relevance (0.2) 7. Present structured results table Venue Quality Tiers Tier 1: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, KDD, AAAI, IJCAI, SIGIR, WWW Tier 2: AISTATS, UAI, COLT, COLING, EACL, WACV, JMLR, TACL Tier 3: Workshops, arXiv preprints — mark with (preprint) Output Format Present results as a table + detailed entries with BibTeX keys. Always note preprint status. Related Skills Downstream: [citation management](../citation management/), [literature review](../literature review/), [related work writing](../related work writing/) See also: [deep research](../deep research/), [novelty assessment](../novelty assessment/)

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