refcheck
Quality Score
82
/100
Verify academic citations against real databases. Catches hallucinated references, exports BibTeX.
§01 Install
Claude Desktop (uvx)
{
"mcpServers": {
"refcheck": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"refcheck-mcp"
],
"env": {
"CROSSREF_EMAIL": "<crossref_email>",
"S2_API_KEY": "<your-s2_api_key>",
"ELSEVIER_KEY": "<your-elsevier_key>",
"ELSEVIER_INSTTOKEN": "<your-elsevier_insttoken>",
"IEEE_API_KEY": "<your-ieee_api_key>"
}
}
}
}§02 Environment variables
CROSSREF_EMAILYour 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)
§03 MCP Quality Score · methodology
freshness
22
completeness
15
installability
25
documentation
15
stability
5
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