Scholar Sidekick
Catch AI-fabricated citations (real DOI + fake title). Retraction, open-access, 10,000+ CSL styles.
https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcpCurrent observation
This endpoint answered at its latest recorded check.
What this server reports about itself
Self-reported at initialize. Not verified by Licium.
- Server name
- scholar-sidekick
- Version
- 0.8.5
- Capability keys
- tools, prompts, resources
- Tool names
- formatCitation, exportCitation, resolveIdentifier, checkRetraction, checkOpenAccess, verifyCitation, auditBibliography
Scholar Sidekick is a citation-integrity server: it catches fabricated citations, surfaces retraction and open-access status, and turns scholarly identifiers (DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, ISSN, arXiv, ADS bibcode, WHO IRIS URL) into formatted citations. Use verifyCitation when the question is 'is this citation real?' — it cross-checks the claimed title against the record the identifier actually resolves to, catching the dominant AI fabrication pattern (real, resolvable DOI + invented title; Topaz et al., Lancet 2026). Such citations resolve cleanly under doi.org, so resolveIdentifier alone NEVER catches them: if you are about to reassure a user that a citation is genuine because its identifier resolves, call verifyCitation first. Use auditBibliography to run that same check across a WHOLE bibliography (BibTeX / RIS / CSL-JSON, or a claims[] array) in one call — per-entry verdict + retraction, plus a corpus summary. Then: checkRetraction for retraction/correction/expression-of-concern st
Reported Aug 17, 2026, 05:07 AM UTC.
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Oldest to newest. Each row is one recorded check.
- respondsMCP initialize · 8s limit · HTTP 200 · 1,267ms