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Nature Citation Finder

Finds and verifies Nature/CNS-family papers that support manuscript claims, then exports references.

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Yuan1z0825/nature-skills
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51,827
Licence
Apache-2.0
Files
15 files

What it does

When installed, the agent maps each claim in your manuscript to supporting papers from the Nature and CNS journal family, checking abstracts or publisher pages rather than just title relevance. It can run a bundled Python script to search and export citations as a reference-manager file (RIS by default), and may produce a review page. It is designed to stay within the requested journal scope and avoid inventing bibliographic fields.

Great for

  • Researchers preparing a Nature or CNS-family submission who need supporting citations
  • Writers who want claim-by-claim citation checks with a reference-manager export
  • Chinese-speaking authors who want Chinese guidance with English search queries

Skip it if

  • General literature searches across unrestricted sources, since the skill is scoped to Nature/CNS journals and the description points to broader tools for that
  • Final citation decisions without human review, because support grading and search results can still be wrong and need checking against the actual papers

Try asking

  • “Find Nature or CNS papers supporting the claim that this drug reduces inflammation in my paragraph, and export them as RIS”
  • “Map each claim in my draft article to supporting Nature-family references and flag any weak matches”
  • “Add missing citations to a long manuscript section by section using the batched workflow”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Nature Citation FinderInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 15 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.

    nature-citation.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip nature-citation.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip nature-citation.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • State the journal scope explicitly (for example Nature family, CNS, or CNS and sub-journals) so the skill applies the right boundary.
  • Review the exported RIS file and verify key papers against their publisher pages before submission.
  • For long articles, ask for the batched strategy so segments are processed in groups of about ten.

What's inside

  • agents/openai.yaml
  • data/npj-journals.json
  • evals/evals.json
  • manifest.yaml
  • README_EN.md
  • README.md
  • references/journal-scope.md
  • references/ris-endnote.md
  • references/script-usage.md
  • references/search-strategy.md
  • SKILL.md
  • static/core/chinese-mode.md
  • static/core/principles.md
  • static/core/workflow.md
  • tests/test_author_exports.py

Redistributed unmodified from Yuan1z0825/nature-skills under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.