Scholar Sidekick
Resolves scholarly identifiers — DOI, PubMed ID, PMCID, ISBN, ISSN, arXiv, ADS bibcode — into clean, formatted citations in any of 10,000+ CSL styles. Returns plain text, HTML, Markdown, RIS, BibTeX, CSL-JSON, or EndNote XML for direct paste or reference manager import.
Install
npx -y scholar-sidekick-mcp
Paste the configuration above into your MCP client config (claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop) and restart the client.
{
"mcpServers": {
"scholar-sidekick-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"scholar-sidekick-mcp"
],
"env": {
"RAPIDAPI_KEY": "<RAPIDAPI_KEY>",
"RAPIDAPI_HOST": "<RAPIDAPI_HOST>",
"SCHOLAR_SIDEKICK_TIMEOUT_MS": "<SCHOLAR_SIDEKICK_TIMEOUT_MS>"
}
}
}
}Paste the configuration above into your MCP client config (claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop) and restart the client.
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