alterlab-research-tools

Plugin alterlab-research-tools from marketplace alterlab-academic-skills in AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills. Commands read from the repo's manifest — 6 days ago.

Skills (14)

• alterlab-bgpt-search

  Search scientific papers and retrieve structured experimental evidence from their full text — methods, results, sample sizes, effect sizes, risk-of-bias / quality assessment, limitations and conclusions, 25+ fields per paper, each value traced to the section it came from. Keyless by default — finds

• alterlab-citation-graph

  Free ResearchRabbit / Connected Papers analog — builds a citation and co-citation graph around one or more seed papers from open citation data (the OpenCitations index and Semantic Scholar, with titles from Crossref), with no API key, account or subscription. Walks both directions of the citation ne

• alterlab-mixed-methods

  Mixed methods research design and integration strategies for combining qualitative and quantitative approaches. Use when planning convergent, explanatory sequential, exploratory sequential, embedded, transformative, or multiphase designs; when integrating diverse data sources through merging, connec

• alterlab-open-science

  Guidance for open science practices — preregistration (OSF Registries, AsPredicted, PROSPERO, ClinicalTrials.gov), open data and FAIR principles, repository choice (Zenodo, Dryad, Figshare), open access routes (Green/Gold/Diamond), Creative Commons licensing, reproducible computational workflows (Do

• alterlab-parallel-web

  Search the web, run multi-source deep research, and extract what a known URL actually says, saving every result with its sources to sources/. Keyless by default — Claude's WebSearch and WebFetch run the same search / research / extract workflow; Parallel Web Systems (Chat API `base`/`core` research

• alterlab-pdf-extract

  Free Elicit-columns analog — ingest N PDFs (or any MarkItDown-supported document) and build a per-paper evidence table with user-defined columns, one row per paper and one column per attribute/question you want pulled from every source. Use when extracting structured data across many papers into a c

• alterlab-perplexity

  Run Perplexity-style grounded searches (answers where every claim cites a current source) for current information and recent literature. Keyless by default: Claude's WebSearch and WebFetch plus keyless scholarly APIs (Europe PMC, Crossref, arXiv) find and open the sources; Perplexity Sonar models (s

• alterlab-pyzotero

  Work with your Zotero reference library from code — search and read items, collections and tags, export BibTeX / CSL-JSON / RIS, find duplicates and missing DOIs, and create, update or delete items, collections, tags and attachments with the pyzotero client. Keyless by default — the running Zotero 7

• alterlab-qualitative-methods

  Comprehensive qualitative research methods assistant supporting thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke), grounded theory (Strauss & Corbin; Charmaz), interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), content analysis, narrative inquiry, ethnography, case study methodology (Yin), coding techniques (open/axi

• alterlab-research-ethics

  International research ethics and compliance assistant supporting IRB/ethics board applications, informed consent drafting, data management plans, Belmont Report principles, Declaration of Helsinki (2024), GDPR compliance for research, HIPAA considerations, vulnerable populations protocols, deceptio

• alterlab-research-lookup

  Look up current research and scholarly papers by auto-routing each query to the best backend and saving every result with citations to sources/. Keyless by default — paper searches go to the built-in scholarly backend (Crossref, Europe PMC, arXiv and Semantic Scholar index records with real DOIs, ve

• alterlab-scientific-brainstorm

  Creative research ideation and exploration for open-ended brainstorming, surfacing interdisciplinary connections, challenging assumptions, and identifying research gaps. Use when starting early-stage research planning with no specific observations yet — for open-ended brainstorming sessions, explori

• alterlab-scientific-thinking

  Evaluate scientific claims and evidence quality using evidence grading frameworks (GRADE, Cochrane risk-of-bias tools such as RoB 2 and ROBINS-I), assessing experimental design validity and identifying biases, confounders, statistical pitfalls, and logical fallacies. Use when judging evidence qualit

• alterlab-survey-design

  Comprehensive survey and instrument design assistant supporting questionnaire construction, Likert scale design, question types (open/closed/matrix), response bias mitigation, sampling strategies (probability/non-probability), pilot testing, instrument validation (Cronbach's alpha, factor analysis),

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