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10 alternatives to academic-research-skills

imbad0202/academic-research-skills — Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize (53,783 stars, CC-BY-NC-4.0, auth, dev-tools, files).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It does not serve code from imbad0202/academic-research-skills itself (licence class: non-commercial), so these alternatives are the licence-cleared route.

#RepoScoreLicenceStars
1pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow5.8MIT1,668
2leonchaox/qinyan-academic-skills4.7MIT972
3florianbruniaux/claude-code-ultimate-guide5.1CC-BY-SA-4.06,251
4thecraighewitt/seomachine6.2MIT7,540
5openai/codex-plugin-cc7.2Apache-2.034,543
6anthropics/claude-code-security-review7.0MIT6,540
7doulor/clawd-companion5.9MIT41
8davila7/claude-code-templates6.0MIT32,884
9chauncygu/collection-claude-code-source-code6.0Apache-2.02,854
10orchestra-research/ai-research-skills6.7MIT13,935

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