cyberneticlibrary

Update research citation counts

update-cite-countskillsetup L1★4

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What it does

Update citation counts for papers by fetching latest data from Semantic Scholar

Best for

When maintaining rankings of research papers that should remain sorted by current citation count without manual data entry

Inputs

· section file name (best_practices.md)
· section name (RAG Research or Agent Research)
· min citation threshold (>=100)

Outputs

· updated citation counts in section files
· ranking verification report

Requires

· Semantic Scholar API
· update_citation_counts.py script
· fetch_popular_papers.py script

Preconditions

· Section files populated with latest papers
· fetch_popular_papers.py run first for baseline

Failure modes

· Semantic Scholar API unreachable
· Citation counts unchanged (data not refreshed)
· Papers fall below citation threshold after update

Trust signals

· Two-script workflow (fetch then update) ensures baseline accuracy
· Automatic ranking validation after count update