Scholar Sidekick inside the tools you already use.
Each integration is a thin client over the public Scholar Sidekick API - the same identifier coverage, citation styles, and retraction / open-access / verifier endpoints, surfaced wherever you work: a note in your editor, a right-click on any web page, or a tool call from an AI agent.
Verify a bibliography before importing it. Paste text or open a .bib / .ris and check every entry at the import boundary - claimed-vs-resolved mismatches (the AI-fabrication pattern), retraction and correction notices, and open-access copies - then import only the clean items, each with a verification note attached. Zotero 7-9, no API key required.
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Paste a DOI, PMID, ISBN, arXiv ID, ADS bibcode, or PMCID in a note and replace it with a formatted citation - no reference manager required. Plus per-note .bib / .ris export, retraction and open-access checks at the caret, and a single-citation verifier modal. Listed in the Obsidian community plugins store.
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Use Scholar Sidekick directly inside ChatGPT. Verify whether a claimed citation is real (catches the real-DOI + fabricated-title pattern), format any identifier in 10,000+ styles, and check retraction status - each answer rendered as an interactive citation card. Built on the OpenAI Apps SDK; free, no sign-in or API key.
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Give AI agents (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and any MCP client) the same citation tools: resolve identifiers, format in 10,000+ styles, export, and run retraction / open-access / fabrication checks. Single or batch.
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Use Scholar Sidekick inside Gemini CLI (and the Antigravity CLI). Six MCP tools the agent calls autonomously - resolve, format, export, retraction, open-access, and fabrication checks - plus /scholar:* slash commands. Install with `gemini extensions install https://github.com/mlava/scholar-sidekick-gemini`; pure config, no key required.
Lint your .bib bibliography inside VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or Positron. Every entry is checked against the real scholarly record - claimed-vs-resolved mismatches (the AI-fabrication pattern), retractions, and open-access status - surfaced as inline diagnostics and hover cards, before you submit. Not a citation inserter; the verify layer Quarto and Zotero don't have. Free, no API key required.
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Right-click any web page to format the selected identifier as a citation, or check it for retraction and open access - no copy-paste into another tab. Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Same citation engine as the website and the notes-app plugins.
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Resolve identifiers, format citations in 10,000+ styles, export to BibTeX / RIS / EndNote, and run retraction / open-access / fabrication checks straight from your terminal or shell scripts. Install with `npm i -g scholar-sidekick-cli` (command: scholar); no key required for the free tier. Same citation engine as the website.
Additional integrations are in development. If you would find Scholar Sidekick useful inside a tool that isn't listed yet, the underlying capability is already available - any client that can make an HTTPS request can use the same REST API or the MCP server that powers these integrations.
Experimental: WebMCP support. Open this site in a browser whose in-browser Model Context API is enabled and the same six citation tools register directly to the browser's AI agent - no install, no key. It self-disables where the API isn't present, so it tracks the emerging standard without affecting anyone else.
