Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar

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5.8k stars · 452 forks · Python

Caution

Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.

Why

One person wrote 93% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)

What would change this

A second person takes a substantial share of commits.

Maintenance

Complete

Slowing

Human commits, 30 days: 5
Human commits, 90 days: 10
Human commits, 365 days: 193
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Sep 23, 2026 (21 days ago)
Last human commit: Sep 23, 2026 (21 days ago)
Authors, 90 days: 3
Last release: Feb 25, 2026 (7 months ago)
Median PR merge time: under an hour

Responsiveness: of 0 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

Only 0 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Personal account
Commits sampled: 193 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 1
Contributors: 5

Top committers

Galaxy-Dawn: 93% of commits
eltociear: 3% of commits
ZhipengHe: 2% of commits
Gaorui Zhang: 1% of commits
kriptoburak: 1% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Mostly organic, confidence medium

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Mar 22, 2026 to Mar 25, 2026: about 335 more stars than usual, peak 168 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 27, 2026 to Mar 29, 2026: about 404 more stars than usual, peak 270 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 10, 2026 to Apr 13, 2026: about 221 more stars than usual, peak 129 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
May 19, 2026 to May 19, 2026: about 81 more stars than usual, peak 100 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.

Engagement is low for a repo this size (forks, watchers, issues, contributors).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

Forks, watchers, issues, and contributors are low for the number of stars.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: Not known

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Oct 14, 2026: Caution

Computed 7 hours ago · method 2026.10.2