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Citation Verifier

by @papersareflowing

Verify, normalize, and enrich a single citation or paper identifier. Use when the user pastes a DOI, URL, arXiv ID, PubMed ID, citation string, or paper titl...

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πŸ“– About This Skill

name: citation-verifier description: Verify, normalize, and enrich a single citation or paper identifier. Use when the user pastes a DOI, URL, arXiv ID, PubMed ID, citation string, or paper title and wants it checked.

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 β€” full paper title
  • Authors β€” first three authors, et al. if more
  • Year β€” publication year
  • Venue β€” journal or conference
  • DOI β€” canonical DOI if available
  • Identifiers β€” any additional IDs (arXiv, PubMed, Semantic Scholar)
  • Status β€” 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.

    Do NOT use

  • search_literature β€” this skill is for a known reference, not topic discovery
  • get_citation_graph β€” the user wants verification, not graph exploration

    • Examples

  • User pastes: 10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2
  • User pastes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12345
  • User says: "Check this cite: Vaswani et al., Attention Is All You Need, NeurIPS 2017"
  • User says: "Is this DOI valid? 10.1234/fake.doi.000"
  • User pastes a Semantic Scholar or Google Scholar URL

    • πŸ’‘ Examples

  • User pastes: 10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2
  • User pastes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12345
  • User says: "Check this cite: Vaswani et al., Attention Is All You Need, NeurIPS 2017"
  • User says: "Is this DOI valid? 10.1234/fake.doi.000"
  • User pastes a Semantic Scholar or Google Scholar URL