--- title: "academic-research-skills vs awesome" type: "comparison" canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/compare/imbad0202-academic-research-skills-vs-sindresorhus-awesome" tools: ["imbad0202-academic-research-skills", "sindresorhus-awesome"] --- # academic-research-skills vs awesome *GraphCanon updated Jul 12, 2026* ## Verdict Pick academic-research-skills when license: academic-research-skills is Other, awesome is CC0-1.0; pick awesome when license: awesome is CC0-1.0, academic-research-skills is Other. [academic-research-skills](https://buymeacoffee.com/crucify020v) reports 37k GitHub stars, 3.0k forks, and 9 open issues, last pushed Jul 11, 2026. [awesome](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) has 484k stars, 36k forks, and 92 open issues, last pushed Jun 30, 2026. Figures are from public GitHub metadata via [academic-research-skills's repository](https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills) and [awesome's repository](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome). | | [academic-research-skills](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills.md) | [awesome](/tools/sindresorhus-awesome.md) | | --- | --- | --- | | Tagline | Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize | 😎 Curated list of awesome topics including hardware resources | | Stars | 37,300 | 484,026 | | Forks | 3,043 | 35,799 | | Open issues | 9 | 92 | | Language | Python | - | | Adopt for | - | - | | Persona | - | - | | Runtime | - | - | | License | Other | CC0-1.0 | | Categories | Data & Retrieval, LLM Frameworks | LLM Frameworks | ## Trust and health _Sourced signals - not a safety guarantee. No winner column._ | | [academic-research-skills](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills.md) | [awesome](/tools/sindresorhus-awesome.md) | | --- | --- | --- | | Maintenance | Very active (96%) | Active (82%) | | Days since push | 0d | 11d | | Open issues (now) | 9 | 92 | | Full report | [trust report](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills/trust.md) | [trust report](/tools/sindresorhus-awesome/trust.md) | ## Choose when ### Choose academic-research-skills if… - License: academic-research-skills is Other, awesome is CC0-1.0. - Tags unique to academic-research-skills: academic-pipeline, academic-writing, ai-research, claude. - Also covers Data & Retrieval. ### Choose awesome if… - License: awesome is CC0-1.0, academic-research-skills is Other. - Tags unique to awesome: awesome-list, resources. - More GitHub stars (484k vs 37k) - visibility, not fit. ## When NOT to use academic-research-skills - Data & Retrieval: Skip a heavy ingestion framework when your corpus is small and static; a script plus the embedding API is enough. - LLM Frameworks: Avoid a framework for a single prompt-and-retrieve call; the abstraction can cost more than it saves. ## When NOT to use awesome - LLM Frameworks: Avoid a framework for a single prompt-and-retrieve call; the abstraction can cost more than it saves. ## Common questions ### What is the difference between academic-research-skills and awesome? academic-research-skills: Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize. awesome: 😎 Curated list of awesome topics including hardware resources. See the comparison table for live GitHub stats and shared categories. ### When should I choose academic-research-skills over awesome? Choose academic-research-skills over awesome when License: academic-research-skills is Other, awesome is CC0-1.0; Tags unique to academic-research-skills: academic-pipeline, academic-writing, ai-research, claude; Also covers Data & Retrieval. ### When should I choose awesome over academic-research-skills? Choose awesome over academic-research-skills when License: awesome is CC0-1.0, academic-research-skills is Other; Tags unique to awesome: awesome-list, resources; More GitHub stars (484k vs 37k) - visibility, not fit. ### When should I avoid academic-research-skills? Data & Retrieval: Skip a heavy ingestion framework when your corpus is small and static; a script plus the embedding API is enough. LLM Frameworks: Avoid a framework for a single prompt-and-retrieve call; the abstraction can cost more than it saves. ### When should I avoid awesome? LLM Frameworks: Avoid a framework for a single prompt-and-retrieve call; the abstraction can cost more than it saves. ### Is academic-research-skills or awesome more popular on GitHub? awesome has more GitHub stars (484,026 vs 37,300). Stars measure visibility, not whether either tool fits your constraints. ### Are academic-research-skills and awesome open source? Yes - both are open-source projects on GitHub (academic-research-skills: Other, awesome: CC0-1.0). ### Where can I find alternatives to academic-research-skills or awesome? GraphCanon lists graph-backed alternatives at [academic-research-skills alternatives](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills/alternatives) and [awesome alternatives](/tools/sindresorhus-awesome/alternatives) ([academic-research-skills markdown twin](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills/alternatives.md), [awesome markdown twin](/tools/sindresorhus-awesome/alternatives.md)), ranked by typed relationship edges rather than popularity votes. ### Is there a machine-readable version of this comparison? Yes. The markdown twin at [this comparison](/compare/imbad0202-academic-research-skills-vs-sindresorhus-awesome.md) mirrors this page for agents and LLM crawlers, with the same stats table and FAQ answers. ### Which is better maintained, academic-research-skills or awesome? academic-research-skills: Very active. awesome: Active. Compare maintenance labels, days since push, and release cadence in the trust section below - stars alone do not measure maintenance. ### Where are the full trust reports for academic-research-skills and awesome? GraphCanon publishes per-repo trust reports with dated maintenance, provenance, and scan summaries: [academic-research-skills trust report](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills/trust); [awesome trust report](/tools/sindresorhus-awesome/trust). --- **Machine-readable endpoints** - JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/graph?tool=imbad0202-academic-research-skills`](/api/graphcanon/graph?tool=imbad0202-academic-research-skills) - LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt) - Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt) _GraphCanon - The knowledge graph for AI development. https://www.graphcanon.com/_