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Resolve DOIs and PMIDs into 10,000+ citation styles, export BibTeX, and verify retraction or fabrication status.
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Example session with this skill installed
Is this citation real? "Quantum supremacy via bibliographic entanglement" - https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1170
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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 Instead of relying on an AI's potentially outdated or hallucinatory memory, this skill connects your agent to a live REST API that resolves DOIs, PMIDs, ISBNs, and arXiv IDs into accurate, formatted citations.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.
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