Check Citations

Check Citations is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by brycewang-stanford in Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

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Install Check Citations

Copy Check Citations into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/62-PHY041-claude-skill-citation-checker ~/.claude/skills/62-PHY041-claude-skill-citation-checker

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/62-PHY041-claude-skill-citation-checker/SKILL.md in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/62-PHY041-claude-skill-citation-checker
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Check Citations does

Check Citations verifies academic citations against CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, and OpenAlex to detect AI-hallucinated references, chimeric citations, and suspicious patterns. Use it before submitting papers or when auditing bibliographies.

Check Citations is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Check Citations comes from a repository tagged academic-research, agent-skills, ai-agent, awesome-list and communication.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

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

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Check Citations

What else does brycewang-stanford publish alongside Check Citations?
Check Citations is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Academic Paper Composer, Academic Proofreader and Auto-Empirical Research. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Check Citations does, and is maintained by brycewang-stanford in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills page.
How does Check Citations compare to other Quality skills?
Check Citations ranks #392 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Check Citations against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.