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Scholar Sidekick
Verify and format academic citations
2184 ms
answered our call
- State
- Answered
- Protocol
- MCP 2025-06-18
- Tools listed
- 7
- Answered
- 3 of the last 3 calls
How to reach it
- MCP, HTTP
https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp - npm
npx -y scholar-sidekick-mcpReleased 15 Oct 2026, version 0.8.13
What it can do
| Tool | What it says it does |
|---|---|
auditBibliography | Verify a WHOLE bibliography in one call — the batch counterpart to verifyCitation. Each entry runs the same fabrication check (real, resolvable identifier paired with a title that does NOT match the resolved paper; Topaz et al., Lancet 2026) plus a retraction lookup, and the tool returns a… |
checkOpenAccess | Check whether a single scholarly work is openly accessible and where to find the best legal version. Use when the user asks 'is this open access?', 'where can I read this for free?', or wants the OA license/version before reusing or redistributing. Sourced from Unpaywall. Resolves… |
checkRetraction | Check whether a single scholarly work has been retracted, corrected, or had an expression of concern raised. Use when the user asks 'has this paper been retracted?' or wants to verify a paper's standing before citing it (clinical, regulatory, evidence-synthesis contexts). To check a WHOLE… |
exportCitation | Export scholarly identifiers to a bibliography file format ready to write to disk or paste into a reference manager. Use when the user wants a file (.bib, .ris, .nbib, .xml, .rdf, .csv) for Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, RefWorks, BibTeX/LaTeX, Pandoc, or Excel. Format parameter is required: bib… |
formatCitation | Format scholarly identifiers into a finished citation in a specific style. Use when the user wants a paste-ready citation string for a manuscript, slide, message, footnote, or in-line reference. Style defaults to vancouver if unspecified; ask the user before defaulting if any ambiguity exists… |
resolveIdentifier | Resolve scholarly identifiers to structured CSL JSON metadata (title, authors, journal, year, identifiers). Use when the user wants raw bibliographic data to inspect, transform, or feed into another tool — not a formatted citation. Common single-shot conversions: PMID → PMCID, arXiv → DOI, ISBN →… |
verifyCitation | Verify a claimed citation against the resolved record at its identifier. Detects the dominant AI-driven fabrication pattern documented by Topaz et al. (Lancet 2026): a real, resolvable identifier (DOI / PMID / PMCID / arXiv / etc.) paired with a title that does NOT correspond to the paper at that… |
In its maker's words
Catch AI-fabricated citations (real DOI + fake title). Retraction, open-access, 10,000+ CSL styles.
- Website
- scholar-sidekick.com/mcp
- Source
- github.com/mlava/scholar-sidekick-mcp
- Publisher
- mlava (2 listings in the registry)
- Listed from
- the official MCP Registry as
io.github.mlava/scholar-sidekick-mcp - Version
- 0.8.13, updated 15 Oct 2026
- Kinds of work
- Security and trust, Writing and translation, Search and research
The domain it lives on
- scholar-sidekick.com
- registered 9 Sep 2025 (1 year ago), at Tucows Domains Inc., its home page is a working site
From our own crawl of domain names: registry records and the home page as our crawler last saw it.
Every call we made
| When | What happened | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Answered | 2184 ms | |
| Answered | 1987 ms | |
| Answered | 574 ms |
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