scholar-sidekick-api
Resolve DOIs and PMIDs into 10,000+ citation styles, export BibTeX, and verify retraction or fabrication status.
- Format any scholarly identifier into 10,000+ CSL citation styles.
- Detect fabricated or mismatched citations generated by LLMs.
- Export batches of DOIs or PMIDs to BibTeX and RIS files.
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- Downloadable skill package
- Works with Cursor, and OpenClaw.
- 3 permissions declared
Sample input
Is this citation real? "Quantum supremacy via bibliographic entanglement" - https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1170
Sample output
verdict: mismatch (confidence: high)
The DOI 10.1038/nphys1170 resolves to "Measured measurement" by Aspelmeyer — not the cited title. This is the real-DOI + invented-title fabrication pattern (Topaz et al., Lancet 2026). The citation is NOT genuine.
Resolve DOIs and PMIDs into 10,000+ citation styles, export BibTeX, and verify retraction or fabrication status.
Free
Included in download
- Downloadable skill package
- Works with Cursor, and OpenClaw.
- 3 permissions declared
- Instant install
Sample input
Is this citation real? "Quantum supremacy via bibliographic entanglement" - https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1170
Sample output
verdict: mismatch (confidence: high)
The DOI 10.1038/nphys1170 resolves to "Measured measurement" by Aspelmeyer — not the cited title. This is the real-DOI + invented-title fabrication pattern (Topaz et al., Lancet 2026). The citation is NOT genuine.
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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 Instead of relying on an AI's potentially outdated or hallucinatory memory, this skill connects your agent to a live REST API that resolves DOIs, PMIDs, ISBNs, and arXiv IDs into accurate, formatted citations.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.
Use Cases
- Format any scholarly identifier into 10,000+ CSL citation styles.
- Detect fabricated or mismatched citations generated by LLMs.
- Export batches of DOIs or PMIDs to BibTeX and RIS files.
- Check if a paper has been retracted or has an expression of concern.
- Find the best legal Open Access URL for a given DOI.
Known Limitations
Does not search for papers by topic - it needs an identifier you already have (pair it with a discovery tool for search). Books/ISBNs have no DOI, so retraction and open-access return a "no DOI" result for them. The anonymous free tier is rate-limited (~40 format / 10 export requests per window); use a RapidAPI key for higher volume.
How to Install
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && curl -sL https://www.agensi.io/api/install/scholar-sidekick-api -o /tmp/scholar-sidekick-api.zip && unzip -o /tmp/scholar-sidekick-api.zip -d ~/.claude/skills && rm /tmp/scholar-sidekick-api.zipFree skills install directly. Paid skills require purchase - use the download button above after buying.
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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.
Compatible with SKILL.md-compatible agents including Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenClaw.
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