Scholar Sidekick

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Scholar Sidekick checks scholarly citations. It compares a claimed title with the record a DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, ISSN, arXiv ID, ADS bibcode or WHO IRIS URL actually resolves to, which catches fabricated citations that pair a real identifier with an invented title. It can audit a whole bibliography, check retraction status (Crossref, Retraction Watch) and open-access status (Unpaywall), and format or export references.

It runs as a hosted Streamable HTTP endpoint, with an npm package (scholar-sidekick-mcp) as a local alternative. No sign-in or API key is needed. An optional free ssk_ key raises rate limits. All tools are read-only.

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• Check whether a citation's title matches the record at its identifier
• Audit a BibTeX, RIS or CSL-JSON bibliography in one call
• Check retraction, correction and expression-of-concern status
• Find the best legal open-access copy of a paper
• Resolve identifiers to structured CSL JSON metadata
• Format citations in Vancouver, APA, IEEE and 10,000+ CSL styles
• Export to BibTeX, RIS, EndNote, Zotero RDF, CSV and more

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• verifyCitationlisting.hint.ro

  Check a claimed title against the record its identifier resolves to, to detect fabricated citations.

• auditBibliographylisting.hint.ro

  Verify a whole bibliography and look up retractions, returning per-entry verdicts and a summary.

• checkRetractionlisting.hint.ro

  Check whether one work was retracted, corrected, or has an expression of concern.

• checkOpenAccesslisting.hint.ro

  Check if one work is open access and find the best legal copy.

• resolveIdentifierlisting.hint.ro

  Resolve scholarly identifiers to structured CSL JSON metadata.

• formatCitationlisting.hint.ro

  Format identifiers into a finished citation in a chosen style.

• exportCitationlisting.hint.ro

  Export identifiers to BibTeX, RIS, EndNote, CSV and other bibliography formats.

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• Is this citation real? Title and DOI: 10.1000/example

• Audit the references in this BibTeX file for fake or retracted papers

• Has the paper with PMID 12345678 been retracted?

• Format this DOI in APA and export it as RIS

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claude mcp add --transport http scholar-sidekick https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp

https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar-sidekick": {
      "url": "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

code --add-mcp '{"name":"scholar-sidekick","type":"http","url":"https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp"}'

{
  "servers": {
    "scholar-sidekick": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar-sidekick": {
      "serverUrl": "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

codex mcp add scholar-sidekick --url https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp

[mcp_servers.scholar-sidekick]
url = "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp"

gemini mcp add --transport http scholar-sidekick https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar-sidekick": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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Markdown

[![Scholar Sidekick on mcp.tc](https://mcp.tc/i/scholar-sidekick/badge.svg)](https://mcp.tc/i/scholar-sidekick)

HTML

<a href="https://mcp.tc/i/scholar-sidekick"><img src="https://mcp.tc/i/scholar-sidekick/badge.svg" alt="Scholar Sidekick on mcp.tc" height="20"></a>

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HTML

<script src="https://mcp.tc/w/scholar-sidekick.js" async></script>

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iframe

HTML

<iframe src="https://mcp.tc/embed/scholar-sidekick" title="Scholar Sidekick on mcp.tc" width="420" height="200" loading="lazy" allow="clipboard-write" style="border:0;border-radius:8px;max-width:100%"></iframe>

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JSON

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https://mcp.tc/i/scholar-sidekick.json

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