academic-research-skills vs Open Scholar Skills
academic-research-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Cheng-I Wu. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). Open Scholar Skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by ZhangYGroup (Yongjun Zhang). Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-28. This pair was picked by a reader, not by our comparison rule, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace | ||
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace imbad0202/academic-research-skills | Listed Version: 3.24.0 Forks (GitHub): 4 141 Stars (GitHub): 54 167 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Community marketplace joshzyj/open-scholar-skill | Not listed | Listed Version: 5.22.2 Forks (GitHub): 25 Stars (GitHub): 178 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | academic-research-skills | Open Scholar Skills |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 54 167 (better) | 178 (worse) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 4 141 (better) | 25 (worse) |
| Last release (differs) | 2026-10-27 | Not published |
| Where it runs | Installs as a plugin bundle | Installs as a plugin bundle |
| Transport | Not stated | Not stated |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Hooks it runs (differs) | 2 | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 27 | Not published |
| Licence (differs) | CC-BY-NC-4.0 | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/imbad0202/academic-research-skills | github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 4 | 2 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-21 | 2026-10-24 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.
What each says it does
academic-research-skills
5 skills + 35 modes + Material Passport pipeline. Includes v3.6.7 cross-model audit gate and v3.6.8 generator-evaluator contract.
Open Scholar Skills
The full social-science research pipeline as skills: idea formalization, systematic literature review, theory and hypotheses, research design with power analysis, causal identification, EDA, analysis with publication-quality tables and figures, computational social science, LLM annotation, section-by-section drafting, citation verification, journal formatting, ethics, replication packages, and simulated peer review. Ships specialized reviewer, code-review, and verification subagents, plus a PreToolUse data-safety guard.
How to run each
academic-research-skills As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add imbad0202/academic-research-skills
/plugin install academic-research-skills@academic-research-skillsOpen Scholar Skills As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill
/plugin install open-scholar-skill@open-scholarCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.
What it can do: academic-research-skills · What it can do: Open Scholar Skills · Compare two other plugins
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