scholar-sidekick-skills

Resolve scholarly identifiers (DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, arXiv, ISSN, ADS bibcode, WHO IRIS URL) into formatted citations (10,000+ CSL styles) and bibliography exports (BibTeX, RIS, EndNote, CSV…), and check retraction, open-access, and citation-fabrication status — for one citation or a whole bibliography at once. Calls a documented REST API over plain HTTP — no install, no API key needed for the free tier. Use when the user has a DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, arXiv ID, ISSN, ADS bibcode, or WHO IRIS URL and asks to format a citation, build or export a bibliography, check whether a paper is retracted, open-access, or a fabricated citation, or audit every reference in a .bib/.ris/CSL-JSON bibliography.

Resolve scholarly identifiers (DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, arXiv, ISSN, ADS bibcode, WHO IRIS URL) into formatted citations (10,000+ CSL styles) and bibliography exports (BibTeX, RIS, EndNote, CSV…), and check retraction, open-access, and citation-fabrication status — from the terminal via the `scholar` CLI. Wraps the public REST API; needs Node ≥20 but no API key for the free tier. Use when the user wants to look up, cite, export, or verify a reference by DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, arXiv ID, ISSN, ADS bibcode, or WHO IRIS URL from the terminal — including retraction, open-access, and fabricated-citation checks, or a whole-bibliography audit of a .bib/.ris/CSL-JSON file.

Use the connected scholar-sidekick-mcp MCP server when the user mentions a scholarly identifier (DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, arXiv, ISSN, NASA ADS bibcode, WHO IRIS URL) and wants structured metadata, a formatted citation, a bibliography export file, a retraction check, an open-access check, verification that a claimed citation is real (not fabricated), or a whole-bibliography audit (batch fabrication + retraction check). Requires the MCP server connected — it works anonymously, no API key required; for a zero-install path use the scholar-sidekick-api skill instead.