{"id":86300,"plugin_id":"plugin_asdk_app_6a8399a0bccc819185d57048383c915c","kind":"skill","collection_source":"plugin_package","comparison_source":null,"observed_at":"2026-11-09T00:17:03.184Z","digest":"4ec95d0a86693a4fa4ef95fb7691bbe7d6c5e96a784caa5dc311b40803cb1bed","against":null,"payload":{"description":"Summarise a researcher's published work from the public publication record — what they publish on, how their topics have shifted, where they publish, their output and citations over time, and their frequent co-authors. Use when the user asks what a named researcher works on, how their research focus has changed, or wants an overview of someone's publications before reading or citing their work — a collaborator, a reviewer, or a prospective advisor. For the user's own work and where it stands among the themes around it, use map-my-research instead.","included_files":[{"relative_path":"agents/openai.yaml","size_in_bytes":545},{"relative_path":"assets/pendar-logo.png","size_in_bytes":31724}],"name":"profile-a-researcher","skill_md_contents":"---\nname: profile-a-researcher\ndescription: Summarise a researcher's published work from the public publication record — what they publish on, how their topics have shifted, where they publish, their output and citations over time, and their frequent co-authors. Use when the user asks what a named researcher works on, how their research focus has changed, or wants an overview of someone's publications before reading or citing their work — a collaborator, a reviewer, or a prospective advisor. For the user's own work and where it stands among the themes around it, use map-my-research instead.\nmetadata:\n  short-description: Summarise a researcher's published work\n---\n\n# Profile a researcher\n\nDescribe a researcher's published work using only the public publication record.\n`profile_researcher` resolves a name, ORCID, or author id to one author record\nand returns counts over everything that author has published.\n\nThis is about the work, not the person. Report what the publication record\nshows; do not add biographical details, personal characteristics, or opinions\nabout the researcher.\n\nUse it for **another** researcher: a possible collaborator, a reviewer, a\nprospective advisor. When the user asks about their own work, where it stands,\nor what they might be missing, use `map-my-research`, which places the work among\nthe themes around it.\n\n## Quick start\n\n1. Call `profile_researcher` with the name as the user gave it. Add\n   `institution` when the user mentioned one — it is the most reliable way to\n   pick the right person among namesakes. An ORCID resolves exactly.\n2. If `found` is false and `candidates` is non-empty, list them with their\n   affiliation, main topic, and number of works, and ask which one was meant.\n   Never pick one silently.\n3. If `found` is false and there are no candidates, say the researcher could not\n   be found and quote `reason`.\n\n## Reading the result\n\n- `profile.topics` — what the researcher publishes on, with `recent_papers`,\n  `prior_papers`, and a `trend` per topic over the windows named in\n  `profile.segment_window`. Topics that are `accelerating` or `too_new` (present\n  only in the recent window) show where their work is heading; that answers\n  \"has their focus shifted\". `unknown` means too few papers in both windows to\n  call a trend — often a topic they worked on earlier in their career.\n- `profile.output_by_year` — papers and citations per year.\n- `profile.venues` — where they publish most.\n- `profile.affiliations` — institutions on their papers, with the years each\n  appears. Affiliation data comes from paper metadata and can lag real moves.\n- `profile.top_coauthors` — the authors they share the most papers with.\n- `profile.h_index`, `profile.i10_index`, `profile.works_count`,\n  `profile.cited_by_count` — standard counts. Author records are assembled\n  automatically and can merge two people with the same name or split one person\n  into several records; `notes` flags when that looks likely.\n\n## Never\n\n- Rank, rate, or judge a researcher, or compare people by h-index. The counts\n  depend on field, career length, and record quality.\n- Add contact details, personal information, or anything not in the result.\n- Infer someone's opinions, plans, or current employment from their papers.\n- Present a candidate as the requested person without the user confirming it.\n\n## Reporting\n\n1. **Who** — the resolved name, current affiliation as recorded, and ORCID if\n   present.\n2. **What they work on** — the main topics, and which are growing.\n3. **Output** — papers and citations over time, and where they publish.\n4. **Collaboration** — frequent co-authors.\n5. **Caveats** — anything in `notes` about record quality.\n\n## Related workflows\n\n- To place the user's own work among the themes around it, use\n  `map-my-research`.\n- To map the field around this researcher's work, use `map-a-field`.\n- To see the field around their work, use `survey-a-research-field`.\n- To look at one of their papers in depth, use `trace-citation-impact`.\n"},"changes":[],"summary":"First saved snapshot. 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