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    Scholar Sidekick Api

    by Mark Lavercombe

    Resolve DOIs and PMIDs into 10,000+ citation styles, export BibTeX, and verify retraction or fabrication status.

    Free

    About this skill

    Professional Research & Citation Management

    Scholar Sidekick is a robust utility for developers and researchers that bridges the gap between raw scholarly identifiers and publication-ready metadata. Instead of relying on an AI's potentially outdated or hallucinatory memory, this skill connects your agent to a live REST API that resolves DOIs, PMIDs, ISBNs, and arXiv IDs into accurate, formatted citations.

    What it does

    • Precise Formatting: Generates citations in over 10,000 CSL styles (APA, IEEE, Vancouver, Nature, etc.).
    • Bibliography Exports: Converts identifiers into industry-standard formats like BibTeX, RIS, and EndNote.
    • Integrity Checks: Real-time verification of retraction status, expressions of concern, and open-access availability.
    • Fabrication Detection: A specialized verification engine determines if a cited DOI matches its claimed title to catch AI-hallucinated references.

    Why use this skill?

    Prompting an AI to "write a citation" often results in "hallucinated" DOIs or subtly incorrect author lists. This skill serves as a ground-truth validator. It uses standard curl commands to interact with a documented API, requiring no local installations or complex setup. It is the essential tool for building agents that assist with academic writing, literature reviews, or automated bibliography generation.

    How to install

    Drop the file into your AI Agent. Works with Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, and 20+ more.

    academia
    bibliography
    citations
    doi
    research
    verification

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    Permissions

    Terminal / Shell
    Network Access
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    File Scopes

    *.bib
    *.ris

    Calls the public Scholar Sidekick REST API over HTTPS. Runs curl (Terminal/Shell) to reach scholar-sidekick.com (Network Access); all calls are read-only lookups - no destructive operations. The export step optionally writes a bibliography file to a path you specify (e.g. refs.bib, refs.ris) - the only file write. No API key needed for the free tier; an optional RAPIDAPI_KEY only raises rate limits via the RapidAPI gateway.

    Creator

    Mark Lavercombe

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