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Phở Research Tools
Verify citations and find papers
2476 ms
answered our call
- State
- Answered
- Protocol
- MCP 2025-06-18
- Tools listed
- 13
- Answered
- 3 of the last 3 calls
How to reach it
- MCP, HTTP
https://mcp.pho.chat/mcp
What it can do
| Tool | What it says it does |
|---|---|
audit_bib | Audit a BibTeX (.bib) file: check every entry against Crossref, PubMed and OpenAlex, including retractions, and report the result per citation key. Each key gets one status: verified, verified_with_corrections (real paper, some fields wrong), likely_fabricated, not_found (could not be confirmed… |
check_retractions | Check DOIs for retractions, expressions of concern and corrections, using Crossref (which includes Retraction Watch data). Status per DOI: retracted, concern, corrected, other_notice, no_notice (nothing on record), not_in_crossref, invalid_doi, rate_limited or lookup_failed (the DOI could not be… |
find_datasets | Find open scientific datasets (and optionally models) that fit a research question, check their licences, verify the source papers (DOI, retractions, corrections), and return a citable Research Data Brief with a link that displays it as a page. The brief travels inside the link itself, so nothing… |
find_evidence | Find the strongest published evidence for and against a scientific or medical claim. Searches PubMed (including a pass limited to guidelines, meta-analyses, systematic reviews and randomized trials) and OpenAlex, and returns real papers, each with a PMID or DOI, ordered by level of evidence… |
find_skills | Search the Phở Skills library: over 500 free, openly licensed (MIT / Apache-2.0) agent skills (SKILL.md format) for research, clinical work, legal, finance, marketing, SEO, sales, data and engineering, from publishers such as Anthropic, Cloudflare, Hugging Face, Stripe and Supabase. Describe the… |
find_tools | Find research software for a task from the bio.tools registry (ELIXIR), check each tool's licence, verify the paper behind it (DOI, retractions, corrections), label whether it is still maintained, and give the install line. Describe the task (e.g. "cluster single-cell RNA-seq data") and optionally… |
format_citations | Format references in a citation style (APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago author-date, Harvard, Vancouver, IEEE, AMA) or export them as BibTeX, RIS or CSL-JSON. By default every reference is first verified against Crossref, PubMed and OpenAlex, and verified references are formatted from the database record, so… |
get_skill | Return one skill from the Phở Skills library: its original SKILL.md (or one supporting file named in `file`), unchanged, with the publisher, licence and source repository. Use it to follow a skill for the current task, or to install it: save SKILL.md and the listed files into a folder named after… |
load_dataset | Open one dataset from Zenodo, Figshare, Dryad, Hugging Face, OpenML and return what you need to use it: its licence verdict, file list with sizes and checksums, column schema, up to 100 preview rows, a citation, and ready-to-run shell and Python download commands. Pass a record link, a DOI, or a… |
prisma_flow_diagram | Draw a PRISMA 2020 flow diagram for a new systematic review from the record counts, as a PNG image plus an SVG and download links. Give the counts you have; screened, sought, assessed and reports-included boxes that follow from others are filled in and marked as derived. Studies included is never… |
screening_log | Turn the screening decisions of a systematic review into its PRISMA 2020 counts, flow diagram and screening log. Give one row per record: its title/abstract decision (include or exclude), its full-text decision for records that passed (include, exclude or not_retrieved), and the reason for each… |
search_papers | Search PubMed and OpenAlex for real papers. Every result carries a DOI or PubMed ID that resolves, so nothing returned can be fabricated. Finds sources for a claim or a topic. Filters: publication year range, open-access only, study types, and the number of results. Retracted papers are left out… |
verify_references | Check every reference in a list against Crossref, PubMed and OpenAlex and report, for each one, whether the paper really exists and whether the details are right. Works on lists written by a person or generated by an AI model. Input: a pasted reference list in any common style (APA, Vancouver… |
In its maker's words
Verifies AI-written references; finds real papers, evidence, datasets and research tools; PRISMA.
- Website
- pho.chat/tools/mcp
- Source
- github.com/thaohienhomes/pho-research-tools
- Publisher
- thaohienhomes
- Listed from
- the official MCP Registry as
io.github.thaohienhomes/pho-research-tools - Version
- 1.1.0, updated 23 Oct 2026
- Kinds of work
- Search and research, Documents and files, Law, tax and government
The domain it lives on
- pho.chat
- registered 27 Aug 2025 (1 year ago), at NAMECHEAP INC, its name does not resolve now
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