An official MCP server provided by Scholar Sidekick that allows AI assistants to verify scholarly citations against fabricated ones, resolve various academic identifiers (DOI, PMID, etc.), format citations in thousands of styles, and export bibliographies in multiple formats like BibTeX and RIS.
- Operator: Scholar Sidekick
- Endpoint: https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp
- Transport: streamable-http
- Sign-in: No sign-in
- Category: Documentation and reference
- Use cases: Verify if a claimed citation matches the record at its identifier to detect AI fabrications; Format a DOI or PMID into a specific citation style like APA or MLA; Export a list of identifiers to bibliography files such as BibTeX or RIS; Check if a publication has been retracted or is open access
- Tools: verifyCitation, auditBibliography, checkRetraction, checkOpenAccess, resolveIdentifier, formatCitation, exportCitation
- Documentation: https://scholar-sidekick.com/mcp
- Directory listing: https://koskamo.com/explore/scholar-sidekick-mcp
- Also known as: Scholar Sidekick MCP MCP; scholar-sidekick-mcp