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Scholar Sidekick

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Resolve any scholarly identifier (DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, arXiv, ISSN, ADS, WHO IRIS) into 10,000+ CSL styles or nine export formats, single or batch, plus retraction, open-access, and citation-verification checks (Topaz et al. Lancet 2026 fabrication-pattern detection).

Plugin · by Scholar Sidekick · runs in Claude Desktop · listed 2026-06-21

Runs in Claude Desktop only: install it from Claude Desktop's extension directory.

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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…

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