/ieee-search

name: ieee-search
description: >-
  Search, verify, and organize literature for IEEE communications manuscripts: JSAC, TWC, TCOM,
  WCL, CL, IEEE conference papers, arXiv preprints, DOI/Crossref metadata, BibTeX, related-work
  matrices, novelty checks, and citation-gap audits. Use this when the user asks to "find papers",
  "latest IEEE papers", "related work", "verify DOI", "make BibTeX", "查文献", "找IEEE论文", "补参考文献",
  or compare a manuscript's claims against prior work. Use live search or available connectors for
  current facts; never fabricate bibliographic metadata.

IEEE Literature Search and Verification

Use this skill to gather and verify literature evidence before writing the Introduction, Related Work, citations, or cover-letter significance claims. It is a search-and-verification skill, not a license to pad references.

Core stance

• **Search live for current literature.** For "latest", "recent", venue policy, DOI, metadata, or

title verification, use available web/connectors rather than memory.

• **Prefer primary sources.** Publisher pages, IEEE Xplore, arXiv records, DOI/Crossref pages, and

authors' accepted manuscripts beat blog summaries.

• **Verify before formatting.** Title, author order, venue, year, volume/issue/pages, DOI, and arXiv

ID must come from a source. Missing fields stay missing.

• **Organize by mechanism and gap.** Related work should help the paper argue a technical gap, not

become a chronological bibliography.

• **Do not overclaim novelty.** Search can support "differs from" and "to the best of our checked

sources", but not universal first-ever claims without strong evidence.

When to open extra files

| File | Open when | |---|---| | [references/search-strategy.md](references/search-strategy.md) | Planning queries, source selection, venue/time filters, keyword expansion, or novelty checks | | [references/verification-and-bibtex.md](references/verification-and-bibtex.md) | Verifying metadata, DOI/arXiv records, BibTeX, citation keys, and IEEE reference fields |

Use `ieee-citation` after search to format final references, and `ieee-writing` to turn the related-work map into manuscript prose.

Workflow

1. **Extract the search intent:** background survey, related-work paragraph, novelty check, DOI verification, BibTeX export, or citation-gap audit. 2. **Build query families:** system/task, method, metric, venue, and synonyms/acronyms. 3. **Search primary sources** and note exact source URLs/DOIs/arXiv IDs. For recent work, include the date range searched. 4. **Screen for relevance:** same system model, same metric, same assumption, or same method family. 5. **Verify metadata** before creating BibTeX or numbered references. 6. **Build a related-work matrix:** paper -> problem -> method -> limitation -> how the user's work differs. 7. **Return gaps and confidence:** what was searched, what remains uncertain, and which claims need softer language.

Output format

1. `Search strategy:` query families, venues/sources, date range, inclusion criteria. 2. `Verified references:` citation-ready metadata with DOI/arXiv/source links and missing fields. 3. `Related-work matrix:` `Paper -> problem/method -> key result -> limitation -> relevance`. 4. `Citation/BibTeX notes:` fields to pass to `ieee-citation`, including uncertain abbreviations. 5. `Novelty and gap note:` what can be claimed safely and what needs more evidence.