Academic Paper Search Found 127 Papers With Citations Formatted While I Slept (6 Nodes) 🔥
Dissertation research. Need papers on machine learning in healthcare. Search PubMed. Search Semantic Scholar. Search ArXiv. Format citations manually. Built 6-node search workflow. 127 papers found. APA and BibTeX citations generated automatically. THE LITERATURE SEARCH NIGHTMARE: Search one database. Switch to another. Download results. Copy citation. Paste into document. Fix formatting. Wrong format. Fix again. 3-4 hours per search query. Citation formatting alone takes 5 minutes per paper. THE DISCOVERY: PDF Vector searches 3 academic databases simultaneously. Code generates both citation formats automatically. Status-based processing. Add query to spreadsheet. Set to Pending. Walk away. Come back to formatted citations. THE WORKFLOW: Schedule trigger checks every minute → Sheets lookup finds queries with Status = Pending → Filter processes only pending rows → PDF Vector searches Semantic Scholar, PubMed, ArXiv → Code generates APA and BibTeX citations → Sheets updates with results and formatted citations. 6 nodes. Literature review automated. THE MULTI-DATABASE SEARCH: Single query hits three databases. Results ranked by citation count. Top 10 most-cited papers returned. Code generates: APA format ready for Word. BibTeX format ready for LaTeX. Both formats. Every paper. THE STATUS-BASED PATTERN: Spreadsheet tracks queries. Status = Pending triggers processing. Status changes to Completed when done. Re-run any search by changing status back to Pending. Research stays current. THE TRANSFORMATION: Before: 4 hours searching databases. 5 minutes per paper formatting citations. Databases searched separately. After: 30 seconds per query. Citations formatted instantly. All databases searched together. THE NUMBERS: 127 papers found across 12 queries 254 citations generated (APA + BibTeX) 3 databases searched simultaneously 48 hours of manual search eliminated Template in n8n and All workflows in Github