Scholar Sidekick

Citation resolver, formatter, exporter, and verifier for scholarly identifiers (DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, ISSN, arXiv, ADS, WHO IRIS). Connectable over A2A JSON-RPC, a public REST API, and MCP (hosted + stdio).

Skills

• Resolve identifier
  Resolve a scholarly identifier to structured CSL-JSON metadata (title, authors, container, year, identifiers).
  citationmetadataresolverdoicsl-json
• Format citation
  Format one or more identifiers in a citation style (Vancouver, AMA, APA, IEEE, CSE, or any of 10,000+ CSL styles).
  citationformattingcslbibliographyreference
• Export bibliography
  Export resolved citations to a reference-manager file format (BibTeX, RIS, EndNote XML, RefWorks, NBIB, Zotero RDF, CSL-JSON, CSV).
  bibliographyexportbibtexrisreference-manager
• Check retraction
  Check a work's retraction / correction / expression-of-concern status (Crossref updated-by / Retraction Watch).
  retractionresearch-integritycrossrefcorrection
• Check open access
  Check open-access status and the best legal full-text URL (Unpaywall).
  open-accessunpaywallfull-textlicense
• Verify citation
  Check whether a claimed citation matches the record at its identifier — catches the real-DOI + fabricated-title pattern.
  verificationcitation-integrityfabricationhallucination
• Audit bibliography
  Verify a whole bibliography (BibTeX / RIS / CSL-JSON) in one call — per-entry fabrication verdict + retraction status, plus a corpus summary.
  verificationbibliographybatchcitation-integrityretraction

How to call

https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/a2a

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