generated: '2026-09-06'
method: generated
source: >-
  openapi/elsevier-*-swagger.json (7 first-party Swagger 2.0 contracts), wadl/ (37 first-party
  WADL contracts), and the Elsevier developer portal how-to guides
provider: Elsevier
providerId: elsevier
description: >-
  Packaged Agent Skills for the Elsevier Research Products APIs. Every operationId named in
  these skills was grepped out of Elsevier's own published contracts; none was invented. Elsevier
  publishes no skills, no AGENTS.md and no llms.txt of its own.
provider_published: false
skills:
- name: elsevier-literature-search
  file: elsevier-literature-search.md
  description: >-
    Choose between Scopus and ScienceDirect, page a result set past the 5,000-item cap with
    cursor pagination, and stay inside the per-API weekly quota.
  operations: [ScopusSearch, ScienceDirectSearchV2, AffiliationSearch, AuthorSearch]
- name: elsevier-citation-metrics
  file: elsevier-citation-metrics.md
  description: >-
    Batch cited-by counts, and understand why the Citation Overview API returns counts but never
    the citing articles.
  operations: [AbstractCitationCount, CitationsOverview]
- name: elsevier-author-profile
  file: elsevier-author-profile.md
  description: >-
    Resolve a researcher from ORCID or name to a Scopus author profile, handle the duplicate
    profiles the matching algorithm creates by design, and pull SciVal author metrics.
  operations: [getAuthorByORCID, AuthorSearch, AuthorRetrievalid, AuthorRetrieval, ScopusSearch, authorMetrics]
- name: elsevier-fulltext-entitlement
  file: elsevier-fulltext-entitlement.md
  description: >-
    Check entitlement before fetching full text so an agent stops generating 403s, then retrieve
    the article and its objects under the TDM provisions.
  operations: [ArticleEntitlementRetrieval, ArticleRetrieval, ObjectRetrieval, ArticleMetadata]
- name: elsevier-scival-benchmarking
  file: elsevier-scival-benchmarking.md
  description: >-
    The resolve-entity-then-request-metrics pattern every SciVal endpoint follows, including the
    offset/limit pagination that differs from the content APIs.
  operations: [institutionSearch, getInstitution, institutionMetrics, countryMetrics, topicMetrics, getTopicsByInstitutionId, worldMetrics]
summary:
  skill_count: 5
  grounded_in: 98 unique operations across 7 first-party contracts