Verify academic citations against real databases. Catches hallucinated references, exports BibTeX.
io.github.benchoi93/refcheck
https://github.com/UMN-Choi-Lab/refcheck
STDIO
No auth required
Hosted endpoint — paste into any MCP client.
Configuration this server reads at startup.
Your email for Crossref polite pool (faster rate limits)
Semantic Scholar API key (free, from semanticscholar.org/product/api)
Elsevier/Scopus API key (from dev.elsevier.com)
Elsevier institutional token for higher rate limits
IEEE Xplore API key (from developer.ieee.org)
Where to find authoritative docs and source for refcheck.
Open MCP Agent Studio and connect this server to Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek and more — no install required.
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