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Scholar Sidekick MCP
scholar_sidekick · MCP server
Scholar Sidekick compares a claimed citation with the record found at its DOI, PMID or other identifier and returns a verdict of matched, mismatch, ambiguous or not found, so you can see where a cited title and the actual paper differ. It can audit a BibTeX, RIS or CSL JSON bibliography of up to 25 entries per call, check retraction and open-access status, resolve identifiers to metadata, and format or export citations in many styles and nine file formats.
Written by ooruby from the README of scholar-sidekick-mcp 0.8.11.
Not claimed by its maker. Is this yours? Prove it and answer the findings
Why it's useful
Your agent can check that the references it cites exist under the titles it gives, instead of you verifying each DOI by hand.
What you could do with it
- Paste a BibTeX bibliography and have your agent flag entries whose titles do not match their DOI records.
- Ask whether a paper has been retracted or has had a correction or expression of concern raised.
- Turn a list of DOIs into APA references and export them as BibTeX or RIS.
Written from its documentation: what it says it can do, not what our checks found.
Maintenance
Not measuredNo release date is on record for this package yet. The nightly publisher check records one as it reaches each npm package, about once every ten nights.
Release activity only: it says nothing about quality or safety, and a finished small package can be fine without releases. How it is measured
- Data handling disclosed
- finding
- no statement of what it reads, writes or sends (README.md)
Published because it was found. A finding is information about where the limits are, not a verdict that the software is unsafe.
What this does not cover
- Everything. Treat it as you would software from anywhere else.
Receipt history: every signed receipt for every version of this listing, and what changed between them.
In its maker's words
MCP server that catches AI-fabricated citations: verifies a claimed title against the real record at its DOI or PMID, audits whole bibliographies, checks retraction and open-access status, and formats citations in 10,000+ CSL styles.
Compare with
Compare all 4How far this has been checked
Static scanned
- What it establishes
- Its published package, or for a hosted server its source repository at a recorded commit, was read file by file, without running it, by every check in our current scan.
- What it does not
- How it behaves when it runs, or anything the scan does not read yet: several rubric checks, the repository's history, and compiled code in folders named dist or build. For a hosted server, that the endpoint runs the code that was read. The ooruby Index sets out exactly what was read.
- Exactly what was read
- Version 0.8.11, the file with digest sha512-TyAGpYCXEU0nTWUUJnUeJwRXzgzOu5zuxuEoswxxg27dh3y83CSD/yhRKdzV+KMxMtk7/0lrT5c+Y0z1ojGzYA==, as the registry publishes it. A published version cannot be replaced, so this names the same bytes for anyone who checks.
- Authentication
- No auth declared. Its hosted endpoint, as the official MCP registry lists it, does not say it asks for a key. That is what the listing declares, not a finding that it has no protection.
Adding it
Paste this into your client's MCP configuration.
{
"mcpServers": {
"scholar-sidekick-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"scholar-sidekick-mcp@0.8.11"
]
}
}
}Or run it directly.
npx -y scholar-sidekick-mcp@0.8.11Pinned to 0.8.11, which is the version the findings above were found in. Drop the version to take whatever is newest, and the report on this page stops describing what you installed.
Where this came from
- Registry
- npm
- Package
- scholar-sidekick-mcp
- Version read
- 0.8.11
- Resolved
- 2026-10-10
Built from source, attested
npm publishes a signed statement that this exact package was built from the repository below, at this commit. It is verifiable without taking our word for it.
- Repository
- github.com/mlava/scholar-sidekick-mcp
- Commit
- 5cf3a67e1a5e
- Built by
- github.com/actions/runner/github-hosted
- Registry publish attestation
- signed by npm · 2026-10-10
- Checked
- 2026-10-10
The badge, if this is your listing
It renders the current rung (static scanned) and links back here, where what that does and does not establish is one click away. It updates itself as the evidence deepens.
[](https://ooruby.com/market/scholar-sidekick-mcp)About this listing
- Kind
- MCP server
- Category
- Research
- Pricing
- Free
- Sandbox
- No
- Hosted
- No
- Updated
- 2026-10-09
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