Citation Verifier

Citation Verifier

Use this skill when the user wants to quickly verify or normalize a single paper reference rather than run a full literature search.

Workflow

1. Accept whatever the user provides: DOI, URL, arXiv ID, PubMed ID, citation string, or a partial title.
2. Call verify_citation with the raw input.
3. If verification succeeds, call fetch with the resolved identifier to get the full paper record.
4. Present the normalized result.

Output Style

Return a clean, structured card with:

• Title — full paper title
• Authors — first three authors, et al. if more
• Year — publication year
• Venue — journal or conference
• DOI — canonical DOI if available
• Identifiers — any additional IDs (arXiv, PubMed, Semantic Scholar)
• Status — whether the citation was verified successfully or had issues

If verification fails or is ambiguous, say so clearly and suggest what the user can try (e.g., a more complete title, a different identifier).

Tool Guidance

Use verify_citation

Always call this first. It handles:

• DOI strings (with or without resolver prefix)
• arXiv IDs (e.g., 2301.12345, arXiv:2301.12345)
• PubMed IDs
• full or partial URLs from publisher sites, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar
• free-text citation strings (e.g., "Smith et al. 2020, Neural networks for...")

Use fetch

Call after successful verification to hydrate the full paper record with abstract, citation count, and venue details.