Scholar Sidekick

Audit, verify, cite papers

Scholar Sidekick MCP resolves any scholarly identifier (DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, arXiv, ISSN, NASA ADS bibcodes, WHO IRIS URLs) into structured bibliographic metadata, formats citations in 10,000+ CSL styles (Vancouver, APA, AMA, IEEE, Chicago, Harvard, MLA, Nature, BMJ, Lancet, and many more), and exports references to BibTeX, RIS, CSL JSON, EndNote (XML/Refer), RefWorks, MEDLINE, Zotero RDF, and CSV. The format/export/resolve tools accept a single identifier or a comma/newline-separated batch, so an assistant can chain resolveIdentifier → formatCitation → exportCitation in one prompt for an end-to-end 'raw IDs → exportable bibliography' workflow.

What you can ask

Verify: doi:10.1126/science.1225829, Jinek et al., Science 2012
Example path

MCP connector

Server URL: https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/apps/mcp
Login: None
Protocol: MCP 2025-11-25
Instructions: Scholar Sidekick turns scholarly identifiers (DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, ISSN, arXiv, ADS bibcode, WHO IRIS URL) into citation trust signals with an interactive citation card. Use to check a WHOLE reference list in one call — always prefer it over repeating , which is for a single citation; to check whether one claimed citation matches the real record at its identifier (catches the real-DOI + fabricated-title pattern); to resolve one to five identifiers into a formatted reference in any of 10,000+ styles; to see whether a work has been retracted, corrected, or had an expression of concern raised. All four are read-only and return a citation card.

Tools

Reads data8

Changes data2

Skills

None in the store listings or on the server

MCP connector

Server URL

https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/apps/mcp

None

Protocol

MCP 2025-11-25

Instructions

Scholar Sidekick turns scholarly identifiers (DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, ISSN, arXiv, ADS bibcode, WHO IRIS URL) into citation trust signals with an interactive citation card. Use to check a WHOLE reference list in one call — always prefer it over repeating , which is for a single citation; to check whether one claimed citation matches the real record at its identifier (catches the real-DOI + fabricated-title pattern); to resolve one to five identifiers into a formatted reference in any of 10,000+ styles; to see whether a work has been retracted, corrected, or had an expression of concern raised. All four are read-only and return a citation card.