Show HN: Scholar Sidekick – citation verifier for the "real DOI, wrong paper"

Category: cli-tool

Tags: citation-management, cli-tool, scholarly-research

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 6, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Scholar Sidekick CLI is a command-line tool for resolving scholarly identifiers into citations, export formats, and performing retraction, open-access, and citation-fabrication checks. It integrates with a public REST API and an MCP server, making it useful for researchers, editors, and AI agents dealing with academic references.

Target audience: researchers, academics, editors, backend devs

Repository: https://scholar-sidekick.com · TypeScript · MIT

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