Scholar Sidekick
io.github.mlava/scholar-sidekick-mcpCatch AI-fabricated citations (real DOI + fake title). Retraction, open-access, 10,000+ CSL styles.
Score: 100/100
Handshake verified by our own probe.
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Tools · 7
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…
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 r…
Check whether a single scholarly work has been retracted, corrected, or had an expression of concern raised. Use when the user asks 'has this paper been retracted?'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 standi…
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 l…
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 t…
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…
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, Me…
Resources · 4
Reference table of the 8 scholarly identifier types Scholar Sidekick MCP can resolve, with example formats and notes on prefix tolerance.
scholar-sidekick://identifiers
Reference table of citation styles supported by formatCitation: 5 hand-tuned builtins plus a starter list of common CSL style IDs from the citation-style-language/styles repository (10,000+ available)…
scholar-sidekick://styles
Reference table of the 10 export formats supported by exportCitation, with picking guidance per common workflow (LaTeX, reference managers, Pandoc, clinical/PubMed, spreadsheets, plain text).
scholar-sidekick://formats
Reference for the four verifier verdicts (matched / mismatch / ambiguous / not_found), confidence scores, the LLM-screen gating, the _provenance block, and the Topaz et al. (Lancet 2026) source paper.…
scholar-sidekick://verify-verdicts
Prompts · 7
Format an academic identifier in a specific citation style.
Resolve an identifier and export it to a bibliography file format.
Format multiple identifiers as a bibliography in a single citation style.
Resolve an identifier to structured bibliographic metadata (CSL JSON).
Check whether a paper has been retracted, corrected, or had an expression of concern raised.
Check whether a paper is open access and find the best legal copy.
Check whether a claimed citation matches the paper at its identifier (detects AI-driven citation fabrication).
How to use
Add to your Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline MCP config:
{
"mcpServers": {
"scholar_sidekick": {
"url": "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp",
"transport": "streamable-http"
}
}
}
Or run it locally:
Runs locally from its npm package (v0.8.11). Add to your Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline MCP config:
{
"mcpServers": {
"scholar_sidekick": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"scholar-sidekick-mcp@0.8.11"
]
}
}
}