MCP Refchecker
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| CROSSREF_MAILTO | No | Your contact email to opt into Crossref's polite pool for more reliable fuzzy fallback access. | |
| MCP_REFCHECKER_DEBUG | No | Set to any non-empty value to print debug logging from the fuzzy fallback path to stderr. | |
| SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY | No | API key for Semantic Scholar to get higher rate limits. |
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
Protocol revision2025-11-25
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {
"listChanged": false
} |
| prompts | {
"listChanged": false
} |
| resources | {
"subscribe": false,
"listChanged": false
} |
| experimental | {} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| verify_citationA | Verify that an academic citation is accurate by checking it against Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, and CrossRef. Returns whether the paper exists and flags mismatches in title, authors, year, or venue. Args: title: Title of the cited paper (required). authors: List of author names. year: Publication year. doi: DOI of the paper (e.g. 10.1145/12345). arxiv_id: arXiv ID (e.g. 2301.00001). url: Direct URL to the paper. |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
TDQS
Scored across 1 tool
Only one tool exists, so there is no ambiguity between tools. The single tool has a clear, singular purpose.
With only one tool, consistency with other tools is not applicable. The name itself (verify_citation) follows a reasonable verb_noun pattern, but no pattern across tools can be evaluated.
The server provides only one tool for the domain of citation verification. While verifying a citation is a focused task, real-world usage often requires additional operations like batch verification, retrieving paper details, or checking multiple citations at once, making the single tool feel too limited.
The tool covers a single operation (verifying a citation) but lacks other related operations such as searching for papers, listing citations for a paper, or bulk verification. For a comprehensive citation checking service, the coverage is incomplete.