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Check if references exist or were retracted, look up journal AI policies, and preview manuscripts.

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Streamable HTTP · MCP 2025-11-25
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A4.4/5.0

Scored across 6 tools

Disambiguation4/5

Most tools target clearly different actions/resources: checking references, fetching a journal AI policy, listing reviews, and reading a review by id are all unmistakable. The only close pair is review_manuscript (attached file) vs review_manuscript_text (pasted/derived full text), but the descriptions explicitly state when to use each, and get_manuscript_review vs list_manuscript_reviews are cleanly split by id-lookup vs history listing.

Naming Consistency4/5

Names follow a broadly consistent verb_noun snake_case pattern (check_references, get_journal_ai_policy, get_manuscript_review, list_manuscript_reviews, review_manuscript). The only deviation is the _text suffix variant of review_manuscript, which is a readable and intentional modifier rather than a convention break.

Tool Count5/5

Six tools is well within a comfortable range and each maps to a distinct step in the manuscript-review workflow (start a review two ways, poll/read it, list past reviews) plus two adjacent utilities (reference checking, journal AI policy). No tool feels redundant or tacked on.

Completeness4/5

The review lifecycle is covered end to end: initiate (file or text), poll via get_manuscript_review, and browse history; reference checking and journal policy lookups round out the stated purpose. Minor gaps exist — no cancel/delete of an in-flight review, no way to discover or search journal policies beyond an exact name or ISSN — but these are workable around and some (citation formatting, source discovery) are explicitly out of scope by design.

Publisher details

Operator
Manusights · Publisher source
Vendor relationship
First-party · Publisher source
Restrictions
Reference checks and journal AI-policy lookups work without an account. Manuscript previews and saved reviews need a free Manusights account (OAuth sign-in), and each account can start a limited number of previews a day. · Publisher source

Available Tools

6 tools
check_referencesCheck referencesA
Read-only
Inspect

Use this when the user wants to check references or citations from any source: a manuscript, a bibliography, a literature review, or citations an AI assistant gave earlier in the conversation. It reports whether each one exists, points to the right paper, or has been retracted, corrected or flagged, for questions like "are these references real?", "is this paper retracted?" or "is this DOI right?". Send citations from earlier in the conversation exactly as given, without correcting them first. Send every reference in the list as its own item, with or without a DOI (one without a DOI is matched by title and first author), with the full text as written, plus its DOI and title when you can read them, and any authors, journal, link, identifier or cite key you can read (the title lets a broken DOI be told apart from a missing work); up to 100 per call. For a whole reference list, such as the References section of an attached paper or a bibliography, send it as written, one reference per line, in reference_list instead of items: every reference in it is checked, in parts when it is long; call again with start_at as the result says until the whole list is done. When the whole original list's count is known, send it as expected_reference_count on every part; do not send a sample or reduce that count to fit a shortened input. Results come from Crossref, the DOI registry and Retraction Watch, and for references without a DOI also Semantic Scholar, PubMed, arXiv and, for books, Open Library; the manuscript itself is not sent. Do not use it to find new sources, to format citations, or to judge whether a source supports a claim. Report as the result's how_to_report says: each status as returned (for example "resolves" or "not found"), explained with the row detail; do not describe results as verified, fabricated or safe to cite. A reference with a DOI is compared by DOI and title only; one without a DOI must match a work by title and author.

Inputs: start_at, references, reference_list, expected_reference_count. Returns: rows, counts, progress, checked_at, +4 more

get_journal_ai_policyGet a journal's AI policyA
Read-only
Inspect

Use this when the user asks what a named journal or publisher allows or requires about AI: AI as an author, disclosure statements and where they go, AI-generated images, uploading manuscripts to AI tools, or reviewers' and editors' AI use. It returns the rules as recorded from the publisher's official policy page, with that page's URL and the date Manusights last checked it. When the record is overdue for a re-check or the page could not be fully read, it says which and gives the URL instead of the rules. It also returns the journal's measured submission-to-acceptance time when Manusights has it. Takes an exact journal name or ISSN. Do not use it for word limits, formatting, fees or impact factors.

Inputs: journal (required). Returns: basis, query, journal, ai_policy, +2 more

get_manuscript_reviewRead a manuscript reviewA
Read-only
Inspect

Use this to read the preview, and the Full Review if the account has one, for a review_id returned by review_manuscript or list_manuscript_reviews. While preview.status is "processing", wait check_again_after_seconds and call again with the same review_id. Report status only while processing; when ready, report only returned findings without inventing critique or recommended fixes. Do not use it for review_ids the user has not referred to.

Inputs: review_id (required). Returns: preview, filename, next_step, review_id, +4 more

list_manuscript_reviewsList manuscript reviewsA
Read-only
Inspect

Use this when the user asks about their earlier Manusights reviews. Returns the 20 most recent, newest first.

Inputs: no named parameters. Returns: reviews

review_manuscriptStart a manuscript previewA
Idempotent
Inspect

Use this when the user wants Manusights to review, check or assess a scientific manuscript they attached (PDF, Word, ODT, RTF, TXT, Markdown or LaTeX, up to 75 MB). Starts a pre-submission preview and returns a review_id right away. The preview takes a few minutes, so read it afterwards with get_manuscript_review using the same review_id. While processing, report status only; do not add a preliminary critique. Report only returned findings when ready. Each account can start a limited number of previews per day from connected apps; the result says when the limit is reached. Calling again with the same file and target journal returns the same review instead of starting another. Do not use it to write, rewrite or edit text, for figures or data files, or when no manuscript is attached.

Inputs: manuscript (required), target_journal. Returns: preview, filename, next_step, review_id, +4 more

review_manuscript_textStart a manuscript preview from its textA
Idempotent
Inspect

Use this when the user wants Manusights to review, check or assess a scientific manuscript and you have its full text (for example from a file the user attached or pasted), but cannot pass the file itself. Send the complete manuscript text, not a summary or excerpt: title, abstract, every section, figure legends and references. Figures and images are not reviewed in this mode; say so to the user. Accepts up to 600,000 characters. Starts a pre-submission preview and returns a review_id right away. The preview takes a few minutes, so read it afterwards with get_manuscript_review using the same review_id. While processing, report status only; do not add a preliminary critique. Report only returned findings when ready. Each account can start a limited number of previews per day from connected apps; the result says when the limit is reached. Calling again with the same text and target journal returns the same review instead of starting another. Do not use it to write, rewrite or edit text.

Inputs: manuscript_text (required), target_journal. Returns: preview, filename, next_step, review_id, +4 more

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