Catch fabricated and mismatched citations before peer review — audit-only reference verification against PubMed and CrossRef.
verify-refs is one skill from MedSci Skills, a physician-built suite
for the medical research lifecycle. This repository is a focused, standalone mirror of
that one skill so you can install just this capability.
Audit-only verification of manuscript references against PubMed and CrossRef.
As a Claude Code plugin (one line):
/plugin marketplace add Aperivue/verify-refs
/plugin install verify-refs@verify-refs
Then invoke it with /verify-refs:verify-refs.
Or copy the skill directly:
git clone https://github.com/Aperivue/verify-refs.git
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r verify-refs/skills/verify-refs ~/.claude/skills/Restart your agent, then use /verify-refs. The installer also supports Codex/Cursor:
python3 installers/install.py --target all.
See skills/verify-refs/SKILL.md for the full workflow and the
bundled deterministic script under skills/verify-refs/scripts/.
This is one of 40+ skills covering literature search, study design, statistics, figures, IMRAD writing, reporting-compliance audits, journal selection, peer review, and revision. Get the whole suite:
/plugin marketplace add Aperivue/medsci-skills
→ github.com/Aperivue/medsci-skills
If you use this in your research, cite via CITATION.cff.
This repository is a generated mirror. The canonical source and all
contributions live in Aperivue/medsci-skills (skills/verify-refs/) — please open
issues and pull requests there, not here. This mirror is overwritten on each sync.
MIT — see LICENSE.