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Citation management Claude skill

The Citation management skill helps an AI assistant find papers, get exact metadata, and build formatted BibTeX entries for scientific writing.

  • MIT licence
  • ★ 52,864 on GitHub (whole repository)
  • Verified against its source 19 Oct 2026

What the Citation management skill does

The assistant can query OpenAlex, PubMed, and Google Scholar to locate articles, turn DOIs, PMIDs, and arXiv IDs into full metadata, and audit citations for missing details. It produces correctly formatted BibTeX entries and applies when locating papers, confirming citation specifics, or keeping references accurate in academic writing.

What it covers

  • Searching OpenAlex, PubMed, and Google Scholar for papers
  • Extracting metadata from DOI, PMID, PMCID, arXiv ID, or URL
  • Validating citations for completeness and venue conformance
  • Formatting and deduplicating BibTeX files

How to install it

What you need

In its documentation's own words:

  • “Requires Python 3.9+ with requests”
  • “Google Scholar search additionally needs scholarly”

Steps change between versions. Check the official instructions before you install.