MCP ServerSTDIOOfficialv0.1.0

refcheck MCP Server

Verify academic citations against real databases. Catches hallucinated references, exports BibTeX.

io.github.benchoi93/refcheck

Hosted URL

https://github.com/UMN-Choi-Lab/refcheck

Transport

STDIO

Auth

No auth required

Connect to refcheck

Hosted endpoint — paste into any MCP client.

https://github.com/UMN-Choi-Lab/refcheck

Environment variables

Configuration this server reads at startup.

  • CROSSREF_EMAIL

    Your email for Crossref polite pool (faster rate limits)

  • S2_API_KEYSecret

    Semantic Scholar API key (free, from semanticscholar.org/product/api)

  • ELSEVIER_KEYSecret

    Elsevier/Scopus API key (from dev.elsevier.com)

  • ELSEVIER_INSTTOKENSecret

    Elsevier institutional token for higher rate limits

  • IEEE_API_KEYSecret

    IEEE Xplore API key (from developer.ieee.org)

Resources

Where to find authoritative docs and source for refcheck.

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