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check-citations · brycewang-stanford | DecimalAI

researchby brycewang-stanford

check-citations

Source brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills ↗License NOASSERTION

Verify academic citations against CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, and OpenAlex. Detects AI-hallucinated references, chimeric citations, and suspicious patterns.

SkillScore26Maintained

Automatic

Research pack

Last verified 7/28/2026

What it changes

Passed 6 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 2 of 22 without it.

Without skill9%

With skill26%

4 fixed2 passed either way17 still failing0 broke

Pass-rate lift: +17 pp
Tokens: +11%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: -54%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 7/28/2026v16 of 23 cases passed with skill · 22 comparable

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

Use this skill

Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/check-citations/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/check-citations/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add check-citations, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/check-citations/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add check-citations

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/check-citations/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/check-citations/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/check-citations/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/check-citations.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

Code scan CleanIntent PassedContent Clean

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md140 lines2 filesincludes scripts

check-citations

Verify academic citations against CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, and OpenAlex. Detects AI-hallucinated references, chimeric citations (real title + wrong authors), and suspicious patterns before submission.

When to Use

After writing or editing a .bib file with AI assistance
Before submitting a paper, thesis, or report
When reviewing AI-generated literature sections
As a CI/CD check in LaTeX manuscript pipelines
When auditing existing bibliographies for dead or fabricated references

Background

6-55% of AI-generated citations are fabricated (varies by model/domain)
100+ hallucinated references found in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
Universities increasingly treat fake citations as academic misconduct
Three hallucination types: fully fabricated, chimeric (real title + wrong authors), modified real (slightly altered metadata)

Usage

Quick Check (Single File)

python scripts/citation_checker.py references.bib

Check All `.bib` Files in a Directory

python scripts/citation_checker.py path/to/report/

JSON Output (CI/CD Pipelines)

python scripts/citation_checker.py references.bib --json

Verbose Mode (Debug API Responses)

Track record

Benchmark

6 / 22

test cases passed, vs 2 / 22 without

Adoption

Users: 2
Times used: 58

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 7/30/2026

View 15 scanner checks

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IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

brycewang-stanford / Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills

skills/62-PHY041-claude-skill-citation-checker/SKILL.md

View on GitHub ↗

License NOASSERTIONImported 8/2/2026Version v1Bundled 1 file · scripts

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What's inside

check-citations

When to Use

Background

Usage

Quick Check (Single File)

Check All .bib Files in a Directory

JSON Output (CI/CD Pipelines)

Verbose Mode (Debug API Responses)

Track record

Benchmark

Adoption

SkillSafety

Source

Related skills

Check All `.bib` Files in a Directory