scholar-sidekick.com

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 audit_citations to check a WHOLE reference list in one call — always prefer it over repeating verify_citation, which is for a single citation; verify_citation to check whether one claimed citation matches the real record at its identifier (catches the real-DOI + fabricated-title pattern); format_citation to resolve one to five identifiers into a formatted reference in any of 10,000+ styles; check_retraction to see whether a work has been retracted, corrected, or had an expression of concern raised.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.

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 status; checkOpenAccess for the best legal open-access copy; resolveIdentifier for structured CSL-JSON metadata on a known-good identifier; formatCitation for a formatted reference in any of 10,000+ styles; exportCitation for bibliography files (BibTeX, RIS, EndNote, CSV, …). All tools are read-only. Works anonymously with no key; an optional free ssk_ bearer key raises rate limits.