foreignResearchScout
Cross-Lingual Dark Science Arbitrage Scout — Finds scientific work that exists only in non-English literature. Give an English topic, a technical bottleneck, or a paper you know (seedPaper: DOI or arXiv id); the scout plans native-terminology searches in up to 6 languages (default zh, ja, de, fr, ko) across OpenAlex, Crossref, HAL, J-STAGE and Europe PMC, drops works that already have an English twin, and returns up to 8 ranked discoveries.
Tool call template
This tool declares no required parameters. Add optional parameters from the input schema as needed.
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}Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| toDate | No | Latest publication date (inclusive). | |
| fromDate | No | Earliest publication date. Default: 10 years before the call. | |
| seedPaper | No | An English-language paper you already know, as a DOI (bare or doi.org URL) or arXiv id/URL. Its title becomes the research topic (or is added to it) so the scout finds non-English work on the same problem. | |
| maxResults | No | Discoveries to return (default 5, max 8). | |
| researchTopic | No | English research topic, e.g. "sulfide solid electrolytes for all-solid-state lithium batteries". | |
| targetLanguages | No | ISO 639-1 codes of non-English languages to mine (max 6). Default zh, ja, de, fr, ko. | |
| technicalBottleneck | No | English description of an unsolved technical bottleneck. Provide this, researchTopic or seedPaper (or several). |