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Citation Management

Search OpenAlex, PubMed, and Google Scholar, extract accurate metadata, and generate, clean, and validate BibTeX bibliographies.

EducationIntermediate★ 33,030⑂ 3,248AI score 9/10Last updated: Aug 9, 2026

What it does

  • Searches OpenAlex (~250M works), PubMed (35M+ citations), and Google Scholar, saving results to JSON.
  • Converts DOIs, PMIDs, PMCIDs, arXiv IDs, and article URLs into complete metadata and BibTeX entries via CrossRef.
  • Enforces a mandatory enrichment phase: any @article missing volume, pages, or doi gets filled in via web search, with gaps logged.
  • Standardizes and deduplicates BibTeX (--rekey --deduplicate) using a consistent citation-key scheme across all sources.
  • Validates completeness, malformed years, venue conventions, unresolved \cite keys against your .tex manuscript, and live DOIs, exiting non-zero on high-severity errors.
  • Includes safety guidance to treat publisher-supplied metadata as untrusted input (shell-injection avoidance).

Who it's for

  • Graduate students and researchers assembling accurate reference lists for papers or theses.
  • LaTeX/BibTeX authors who want zero citation errors before journal submission.
  • Anyone chaining this with literature-review or scientific-writing skills for an end-to-end workflow.

Example uses

  1. "Find 50 recent CRISPR gene-editing papers and build references.bib" → searches OpenAlex + PubMed, merges and deduplicates.
  2. "Turn the DOI list in identifiers.txt into BibTeX" → runs extract_metadata.py --input identifiers.txt --output citations.bib.
  3. "Check references.bib against paper.tex and Nature's standards" → validate_citations.py --manuscript paper.tex --venue nature with a JSON report.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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Copy the skills/citation-management folder from the GitHub repo K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/citation-management/.
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git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r scientific-agent-skills/skills/citation-management ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal and confirm Python 3.9+ is available: python3 --version.
  2. Install the required dependency: pip install requests (add pip install scholarly only if you want Google Scholar search).
  3. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git
  4. Copy the skill into place: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r scientific-agent-skills/skills/citation-management ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Optional: set polite-pool identifiers for faster, higher-limit API access — export OPENALEX_EMAIL=you@example.com and export NCBI_EMAIL=you@example.com (plus NCBI_API_KEY if you have one).
  6. Restart Claude Code, then ask something like "convert this DOI to BibTeX" and the skill will trigger automatically.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT