Academic Research Skills for Claude Code

A comprehensive collection of 79 Claude Code skills for academic research in economics, finance, and social sciences — organized by workflow stage.

Repository Structure

academic-research-skills/
├── writing/              # 8 skills
├── literature-review/    # 9 skills
├── data-analysis/        # 14 skills
├── visualization/        # 6 skills
├── peer-review/          # 10 skills
├── presentations/        # 8 skills
├── citations/            # 2 skills
├── grants/               # 1 skill
├── brainstorming/        # 4 skills
├── data-sourcing/        # 3 skills
├── output-tools/         # 10 skills
├── project-management/   # 4 skills
├── CLAUDE.md
└── README.md

Skill Categories

writing/ — Academic Writing & Revision (8 skills)

• academic-writing — Academic writing methodology, IMRaD, FINER criteria
• academic-writing-1.0.0 — Academic writing v1.0.0
• academic-paper-write — Academic paper writing support
• academic-paper-writer — Academic paper writer
• econ-write — Expert economics paper writing synthesizing 50+ guides
• review-response — Response letter drafting for R&R
• revision-coordinator — Orchestrate manuscript revisions
• scientific-writing — Core scientific writing

literature-review/ — Literature Search & Discovery (9 skills)

• lit-review — Structured literature search and gap identification
• lit-review-assistant — Literature review assistant
• literature-review — Comprehensive literature review tools
• academic-researcher — Academic research and literature discovery
• deep-research — Multi-source research synthesis (5-step process)
• deep-research-pro — Professional deep research
• academic-deep-research — Academic deep research
• Deep-Research-skills-master — Deep research skills collection
• conservative_retriever_skill-main — Conservative retrieval for research

data-analysis/ — Data Analysis & Statistics (14 skills)

• data-analysis — End-to-end R data analysis (5 phases)
• exploratory-data-analysis — EDA workflows
• csv-data-summarizer — CSV data summarization
• r-analyst — R statistical analysis with phases and techniques
• r-econometrics — R econometric analysis
• python-panel-data — Python panel data analysis
• stata — Stata programming support
• stata-analyst — Stata 6-phase analysis workflow
• stata-regression — Stata regression analysis
• stata-data-cleaning — Stata data cleaning utilities
• stata-skill-main — Stata skill
• stata-accounting-research-master — Stata for accounting research
• StatsPAI_skill — Statistical PAI
• sociologist-analyst — Sociological analysis

visualization/ — Figures & Visualization (6 skills)

• matplotlib — Publication-quality matplotlib figures
• scientific-visualization — Journal-specific styles, colorblind-safe palettes
• econ-visualization — Economics-specific visualizations
• paper-plot-skills-main — Paper plotting utilities
• galaxy-dawn-publication-chart-skill — Publication chart generation
• tikz — TikZ/pgfplots LaTeX figures

peer-review/ — Review & Quality Assurance (10 skills)

• peer-review — 7-stage systematic peer review toolkit
• referee2 — Multi-agent peer review simulation
• scholarpeer-econ — Economics-focused peer review
• paper-self-review — Self-review before submission
• review-paper — Paper review assistance
• scholar-evaluation — Scholar evaluation tools
• fletcher — Defamiliarization audit (interpretation audit)
• scientific-critical-thinking — Evaluate scientific claims
• consistency-checker — 10-category pre-submission document audit
• fact-checker — Systematic fact verification with 6-level rating scale

presentations/ — Slides & Presentations (8 skills)

• beamer-presentation — LaTeX Beamer with Metropolis theme
• scientific-slides — Scientific slide decks
• academic-slides-main — Academic presentation tools
• academic-pptx-skill-main — Academic PPTX creation
• Aut_Sci_ppt-main — PDF-to-PPTX Python package
• Beamer_PPT_Skill — Beamer PPT integration
• beautiful_deck — Beautiful presentation decks
• compiledeck — Compile Beamer decks

citations/ — Citation Management (2 skills)

• citation-management — 5-phase citation workflow with Python scripts
• crossref-main — CrossRef API integration

grants/ — Grant Proposals (1 skill)

• research-grants — NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, NSTC proposals (5 phases)

brainstorming/ — Ideation & Hypothesis (4 skills)

• hypothesis-generation — 8-step structured hypothesis formulation
• scientific-brainstorming — 5-phase research brainstorming
• research-ideation — Research idea development
• prompt-optimizer — Prompt optimization for research

data-sourcing/ — External Data Access (3 skills)

• fred-economic-data — FRED API for 800,000+ economic time series
• sec-edgar-parser — SEC EDGAR corporate filings parser
• api-data-fetcher — General API data retrieval

output-tools/ — Specialized Output & Tools (10 skills)

• market-research-reports — 50+ page McKinsey/BCG-style reports
• paper-2-web — Convert academic papers to web format
• latex-document-skill-main — LaTeX document creation
• latex-posters — Academic poster creation
• latex-tables — Professional LaTeX tables
• make-poster — Poster generation
• hbs-case-writer — Harvard Business School case writing
• interview-me — Interview preparation
• socrates-skill-main — Socratic questioning for research
• excalidraw-diagram-skill-main — Excalidraw diagram creation

project-management/ — Setup & Utilities (4 skills)

• newproject — Scaffold new research projects with standard structure
• split-pdf — PDF splitting and reading
• strategic-analyst-skill-1.0.2 — Strategic project analysis
• techdebt — Technical debt management

Installation

These skills are designed for use with Claude Code CLI. To install a skill:

1. Copy the skill folder from its category directory to your Claude Code skills directory
2. The skill will be available via /skill-name in Claude Code

Requirements

Each skill may have specific requirements listed in its SKILL.md or requirements.txt file. Common dependencies include:

• Python 3.8+
• R with relevant packages
• Stata (for Stata-related skills)
• LaTeX distribution (for Beamer/LaTeX skills)

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Please place new skills in the appropriate category subdirectory.

License

Individual skills may have their own licenses. Please check each skill’s LICENSE file for details.

Author

Weikai Li — Professor of Finance, City University of Hong Kong

Repository

https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills