PHY041

Claude Skill Citation Checker — AI skill for Claude Code

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AI citation hallucination detector — verify .bib files against CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex.

How to install Claude Skill Citation Checker

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open PHY041/claude-skill-citation-checker and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Claude Skill Citation Checker does

AI citation hallucination detector — verify .bib files against CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex. Claude Code skill.

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README

check-citations

**Stop hallucinated citations before they reach your reviewer.**

A Claude Code skill that verifies every citation in your `.bib` file against three academic databases (CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex). Catches fabricated references, chimeric citations, and suspicious patterns — no API keys required.

Why This Exists

Problem	Scale
AI-generated citations are fabricated	6-55% depending on model
NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers contained 100+ fake refs	Source
Universities now treat fake citations as misconduct	Growing trend since 2024
Existing tools only check if DOIs resolve	They miss fabricated content

**This is the only tool that detects the actual hallucination problem** — not just broken links, but papers that don't exist.

Install

# Clone into your Claude Code skills directory
git clone https://github.com/PHY041/claude-skill-citation-checker.git ~/.claude/skills/check-citations

# Dependencies (just requests)
pip install requests

Then in Claude Code: `Use /check-citations to verify my bibliography`

Quick Start

# Check a single .bib file
python scripts/citation_checker.py references.bib

# Check all .bib files in a project
python scripts/citation_checker.py path/to/thesis/

# JSON output for CI/CD
python scripts/citation_checker.py references.bib --json

# Verbose (see API responses)
python scripts/citation_checker.py references.bib --verbose

What It Catches

1. Fully Fabricated Citations

Papers that don't exist in any database. The classic LLM hallucination.

  NOT FOUND (0 sources): [zhang2024unified]
    Title:   Unified Framework for Multi-Modal Reasoning in Dynamic Environments
    Authors: Zhang, Wei and Liu, Xiaoming and Chen, Yufei
    FLAG: NOT FOUND in any database — likely hallucinated