verify-citations
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Verifies every citation in a BibTeX .bib file against Crossref, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, and arXiv to catch hallucinated, fabricated, or incorrect references before reviewers do. Use when the user says verify citations, check references, validate bibliography, check my .bib, fake or hallucinated citations, retracted paper, or DOI check — and before any draft, rebuttal, or camera-ready leaves the machine. Flags unresolvable entries (likely fabrications), author/year/venue mismatches, duplicates, and retractions, and points to the canonical record for each fix. Every skill that writes or edits citations must route new references through this gate.
Install
npx skills add ShaishavMaisuria/research-paper-lifecycle-skills --skill verify-citations -a claude-code
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