io.github.mlava/scholar-sidekick-mcp · v0.8.12 · health-and-science
Scholar Sidekick is healthy: it completed an MCP handshake in 2947 ms and exposes 7 tools. It scores 62/100.
Catch AI-fabricated citations (real DOI + fake title). Retraction, open-access, 10,000+ CSL styles.
Endpoint: https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp (streamable-http)
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| health | 17 / 25 |
| authEase | 15 / 15 |
| toolQuality | 15 / 15 |
| maintenance | 7 / 15 |
| adoption | 0 / 10 |
| usage | 0 / 10 |
| security | 8 / 10 |
Scoring v0.3, computed 2026-10-15T06:00:56.819Z.
| Checked (UTC) | Status | Latency | Error |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-15T06:00:50.545Z | Healthy | 2947 | |
| 2026-10-15T06:00:50.347Z | Healthy | 2763 |
verifyCitation | Verify a claimed citation against the resolved record at its identifier. Detects the dominant AI-driven fabrication pattern documented by Topaz et al. (Lancet 2026): a real, resolvable identifier (DOI / PMID / PMCID / arXiv / etc.) paired with a title that does NOT correspond to the paper at that id |
auditBibliography | Verify a WHOLE bibliography in one call — the batch counterpart to verifyCitation. Each entry runs the same fabrication check (real, resolvable identifier paired with a title that does NOT match the resolved paper; Topaz et al., Lancet 2026) plus a retraction lookup, and the tool returns a per-entry |
checkRetraction | Check whether a single scholarly work has been retracted, corrected, or had an expression of concern raised. Use when the user asks 'has this paper been retracted?' or wants to verify a paper's standing before citing it (clinical, regulatory, evidence-synthesis contexts). For multi-paper bibliograph |
checkOpenAccess | Check whether a single scholarly work is openly accessible and where to find the best legal version. Use when the user asks 'is this open access?', 'where can I read this for free?', or wants the OA license/version before reusing or redistributing. Sourced from Unpaywall. Resolves DOI/PMID/PMCID/arX |
resolveIdentifier | Resolve scholarly identifiers to structured CSL JSON metadata (title, authors, journal, year, identifiers). Use when the user wants raw bibliographic data to inspect, transform, or feed into another tool — not a formatted citation. Common single-shot conversions: PMID → PMCID, arXiv → DOI, ISBN → CS |
formatCitation | Format scholarly identifiers into a finished citation in a specific style. Use when the user wants a paste-ready citation string for a manuscript, slide, message, footnote, or in-line reference. Style defaults to vancouver if unspecified; ask the user before defaulting if any ambiguity exists (e.g. |
exportCitation | Export scholarly identifiers to a bibliography file format ready to write to disk or paste into a reference manager. Use when the user wants a file (.bib, .ris, .nbib, .xml, .rdf, .csv) for Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, RefWorks, BibTeX/LaTeX, Pandoc, or Excel. Format parameter is required: bib (BibTeX |