check-citations
Verify academic citations against CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, and OpenAlex. Detects AI-hallucinated references, chimeric citations, and suspicious patterns.
Install / Use
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill 62-PHY041-claude-skill-citation-checkerInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
SKILL.md
Installable skill definition
Quality Score
Category
Education & ResearchSupported Platforms
Our assessment of check-citations
check-citations scores 87/100 on our quality scale, 121st of 238 Education & Research skills we index.
We have not analysed the SKILL.md file itself yet, so the content part of this score is an estimate until our crawler reaches it.
With 4,360 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated 4 days ago, so check-citations is actively maintained.
- No license is declared. By default that means all rights are reserved: you can read it, but reusing or redistributing it is not clearly permitted. Ask the author before building on it commercially.
- Its trust signals score 88/100, with 1 caution from licensing, adoption, age or documentation. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
check-citations compared with similar skills
All 4 of these similar skills score higher than check-citations; compare them before choosing.
| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| check-citations (this skill)by brycewang-stanford | 87 | 4.4k | 4d ago | SKILL.md |
| Agent-Reachby Panniantong | 100 | 85.7k | 12d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| headroomby headroomlabs-ai | 100 | 73.9k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| last30days-skillby mvanhorn | 100 | 63.0k | 4d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| crawl4aiby unclecode | 100 | 84.4k | 2d ago | MCP Server |
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install check-citations?
- Run
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill check-citations. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does check-citations work with?
- It is written for Claude Code, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is check-citations safe to use?
- It declares no license and scores 88/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is check-citations still maintained?
- The repository was last updated 4 days ago, so check-citations is actively maintained.
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Trust signals
From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.