Scholar Sidekick
ChatGPT pluginAudit, verify, cite papers
Audit a whole reference list in one request - up to 25 entries, each checked for fabrication and retraction, returned as a per-entry verdict table. Verify whether a single citation is real - it cross-checks the claimed title and authors against the actual record at the identifier, catching the common pattern where a real DOI is paired with a fabricated or mismatched title. Resolve a DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, arXiv ID, ISSN, or ADS bibcode into a clean, formatted citation in Vancouver, APA, AMA, IEEE, CSE, or any of 10,000+ CSL styles. Check whether a paper has been retracted, corrected, or had an expression of concern raised. Works in Codex too: ask the coding agent to verify the references in a manuscript or .bib file while it works. Results show in a citation card with the verdict, the formatted reference, and the source identifier. $0 - no account and no API key required.
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- “Verify: doi:10.1126/science.1225829, Jinek et al., Science 2012”
- “Is this real? doi:10.1126/science.1225829 "CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing"”
- “Has doi:10.1126/science.1225829 been retracted?”
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- Mark Lavercombe · Website
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- 2.0.1
- Created
- June 23, 2026
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