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Citation Backfill

Category: Science & Research  ·  Sub-category: research-methods  ·  Last updated:
Rebuild bidirectional citation edges across the research corpus. Scans outgoing citation tables, computes the inverse map, and rewrites all incoming tables to match. Fixes one-directional citation graphs after batch inductions.

From the source SKILL.md

Rebuild bidirectional citation edges across the entire research corpus. After batch inductions or outgoing citation table updates, incoming citation tables across the corpus become stale. This command computes the inverse citation map and rewrites all incoming tables to match.

What this skill does

Citation Backfill is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the research-methods sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/citation-backfill/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Citation Backfill Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

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Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/citation-backfill
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/citation-backfill/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/citation-backfill/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/citation-backfill/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/citation-backfill/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\citation-backfill\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:

APA
ClaudSkills. (2026). Citation Backfill [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/citation-backfill/
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@misc{citation-backfill-2026,
  author    = {ClaudSkills},
  title     = {Citation Backfill [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/citation-backfill/}
}

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