academic-researchlisted

# Academic Research ## Overview Collects evidence from peer-reviewed papers and preprints. The defining risk here is exactly acceptance test 4 in this repo's test suite: a blog post misreading or overstating what a paper actually found. This skill's job includes resolving that conflict in the paper's favor when it arises — the root always outranks a derivative's misreading (engine/conflict-resolution.md's derivation check). **Layer rule:** produces evidence, not results. Synthesis and confidence status are the orchestrator's job. ## When to use Direct use: "find studies on X", "what's the peer-reviewed evidence for Y". As a component: orchestrator dispatches this whenever a fact-type claim has a scientific/technical basis worth checking against the actual literature rather than someone's summary of it. Don't use for: a secondary summary/interpretation as if it were the paper itself (fetch the paper directly, or flag when only the summary was accessible), general web content with no scholarly indexing (→ web-research). ## Workflow 1. **Search the actual literature index**, not general web search — arXiv, PubMed, DOI resolution, or whatever academic search surface is available. General web search will miss paywalled or properly-indexed papers a dedicated search catches, and will surface blog summaries instead of the source. 2. **Distinguish peer-reviewed from preprint from non-reviewed.** A preprint (arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv) is real research not yet vetted — usable, but