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Resolve a scholarly identifier (DOI/PMID/PMCID/ISBN/ISSN/arXiv/ADS/WHO IRIS) to structured CSL JSON metadata.
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Audit a whole bibliography (BibTeX, RIS, or CSL-JSON) in one call — per-entry fabrication verdict and retraction status, plus a corpus summary.
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. Calls a documented REST API over plain HTTP — no install, no API key needed for the free tier.
Check whether a scholarly work is openly accessible and return the best legal free URL, license, and version (via Unpaywall).
Check whether a scholarly work has been retracted, corrected, or had an expression of concern raised (via Crossref + Retraction Watch).
Export resolved citations to a reference-manager file format (RIS, BibTeX, CSL JSON, EndNote XML, RefWorks, NBIB, Zotero RDF, CSV, or plain text).
Format one or more scholarly identifiers as citations in a chosen style (Vancouver, AMA, APA, IEEE, CSE, or any CSL style ID).
| name | resolve-identifier |
| description | Resolve a scholarly identifier (DOI/PMID/PMCID/ISBN/ISSN/arXiv/ADS/WHO IRIS) to structured CSL JSON metadata. |
Resolves a single bibliographic identifier to canonical CSL JSON metadata via the Scholar Sidekick resolver chain (Crossref → PubMed → DataCite → arXiv → ADS → ISBN → WHO IRIS, with deterministic fallback order).
identifier (string, required) — DOI like 10.1038/nphys1170, PMID like 34812345, ISBN, etc. Detection is automatic.CSL JSON with at least title, author[], issued, container-title, DOI/PMID/PMCID/URL (depending on source). Errors return { ok: false, code, error }.
POST /api/format with text: "<identifier>" and output: "json" returns the resolved item alongside the formatted string.resolveIdentifier in scholar-sidekick-mcp.curl -sS -X POST "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/format" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"text":"10.1038/nphys1170","style":"vancouver","output":"text"}'
formatCitation for rendering, verifyCitation for fabrication detection./llms.txt for the full service description.