refcheck

io.github.benchoi93Published by GitHub account benchoi93v0.1.0Updated Oct 27, 2026

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

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Overview

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Checks academic citations against real scholarly databases to catch hallucinated references and export BibTeX.

What you can do
  • Verify citations against real academic databases and flag references that cannot be found.
  • Detect hallucinated or fabricated references in a bibliography.
  • Export verified references as BibTeX.
  • Use optional API keys for Crossref, Elsevier/Scopus, IEEE Xplore and Semantic Scholar to raise rate limits.
When to use it
Useful when drafting or reviewing papers, reports or literature reviews where references may be invented or misattributed, and you want each citation checked against real sources before submission.
Requirements
Runs locally as a Python package (refcheck-mcp) over stdio, on desktop only. Optional environment variables: CROSSREF_EMAIL for the Crossref polite pool, and the API keys ELSEVIER_KEY, ELSEVIER_INSTTOKEN, IEEE_API_KEY and S2_API_KEY for higher rate limits. Network access to the scholarly databases is needed.
Before you install
Four optional credentials are read from the environment: ELSEVIER_KEY, ELSEVIER_INSTTOKEN, IEEE_API_KEY and S2_API_KEY, plus CROSSREF_EMAIL. Citation queries, including titles and author names, are sent to third-party scholarly services such as Crossref, Elsevier, IEEE and Semantic Scholar. No tool list is published, so the exact write or export behaviour is not documented here.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open refcheck in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.

Other MCP clients

Follow the launch instructions in the repository.

README

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Tools

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Version history

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  1. v0.1.0LatestSep 16, 2026

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