Scholar Sidekick is an MCP server with 7 tools an agent can call, among them auditBibliography, checkOpenAccess, checkRetraction. It answers at https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp over streamable HTTP, and it listed its tools to an anonymous client, so no sign-in was needed for that. Our probes reached it 6 of 6 times since 11 September 2026; the last check, on 22 October 2026, succeeded.
Catch AI-fabricated citations (real DOI + fake title). Retraction, open-access, 10,000+ CSL styles.
Description as the publisher wrote it.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
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 Inputs: bibliography, format, claims, checks, screenWithLlm |
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 redistr Inputs: id |
checkRetraction | Check whether a single scholarly work has been retracted, corrected, or had an expression of concern raised. Use when the user asks 'has this paper been retracted?'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, regulator Inputs: id |
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, Inputs: text, format, style, lang |
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; a Inputs: text, style, lang, footnote, output |
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 s Inputs: text |
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 w Inputs: title, doi, pmid, pmcid, isbn, arxiv |
Every block below points at https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp. Pick your client and copy.
claude mcp add --transport http scholar-sidekick https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"scholar-sidekick": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp"]
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"scholar-sidekick": {
"url": "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"scholar-sidekick": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}{
"context_servers": {
"scholar-sidekick": {
"url": "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"scholar-sidekick": {
"serverUrl": "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"scholar-sidekick": {
"url": "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}name: Scholar Sidekick
version: 0.0.1
schema: v1
mcpServers:
- name: Scholar Sidekick
type: streamable-http
url: https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"scholar-sidekick": {
"httpUrl": "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"scholar-sidekick": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"scholar-sidekick": {
"url": "https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}goose://extension?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscholar-sidekick.com%2Fapi%2Fmcp&type=streamable_http&id=scholar-sidekick&name=Scholar%20Sidekick
It answered our last check on 22 October 2026 in 348 ms. Over 6 checks since 11 September 2026 it answered 6. Status here comes from Neuronto's own probes, not from the publisher.
7, as returned by the server's own tools/list on 17 September 2026: auditBibliography, checkOpenAccess, checkRetraction, exportCitation, formatCitation, resolveIdentifier, verifyCitation.
It answered our last check on 22 October 2026 in 348 ms. Over 6 checks since 11 September 2026 it answered 6.
Put the server under mcpServers in ~/.cursor/mcp.json with the URL https://scholar-sidekick.com/api/mcp. The exact JSON is above, with the same setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Gemini CLI and the rest.
It listed its tools to an anonymous client, so reading the tool list needs no key. Individual tools can still ask for credentials in their own inputs.
Publisher: io.github.mlava. Endpoint host: scholar-sidekick.com. ARD identifier: urn:air:io.github.mlava:mcp:scholar-sidekick-mcp.
First indexed 10 September 2026. The tools are exactly what the server returned; nothing on this page
is inferred from its name. Ranking in Neuronto search is never for sale.