Phở Research Tools
by Phở Chat(Community)
Visitor takeaway
62/100
Fair AI-discovery coverage across description, prompts, keywords, visuals, tool metadata, health, and freshness.
Routing category
Education
This app has a primary category, so visitors can browse and compare it in the right directory context.
Connector evidence
Reachable
Tedix can reach this MCP endpoint and can show live capability evidence when tools are discovered.
Directory freshness
2h ago
Catalog metadata was refreshed 2h ago (October 18, 2026).
Description
AI assistants invent references that look perfect: real author names, a real journal, a plausible DOI, and no paper behind them. Phở Research Tools lets your assistant check its own work against the public scholarly databases before you see it. Verify references. Paste a reference list in any style, BibTeX or RIS. Each entry comes back verified, real but with wrong details (with the corrected record), retracted, likely fabricated, or not found, with the database record it was checked against. Format citations. APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago, Harvard, Vancouver, IEEE and AMA, or export BibTeX, RIS and CSL-JSON. Verified references are formatted from the real record, so the bibliography carries the corrected details. Search papers. OpenAlex and PubMed, filtered by study type and year. Every result has a DOI or PubMed ID that resolves; retracted papers are left out and preprints are labelled. Check retractions. Retraction, expression-of-concern and correction notices for a list of DOIs. PRISMA 2020 flow diagram. Draws the diagram from your counts and warns when the numbers do not add up. No account needed. The tools are read-only lookups in public databases; they cannot read your chats or files, and there is no record of who checked what.
Capabilities
No special capabilities listed
AI Agent Discovery
Phở Research Tools is indexed by Tedix as a structured education listing for AI assistants, search crawlers, and users comparing agent-ready apps.
- Phở Research Tools is categorized as Education.
- Developer: Phở Chat.
- Connector type: AI-Powered App.
- Current connector status: Connected.
- Observed distribution channels: claude.
Use this page to understand whether Phở Research Tools is relevant for education workflows in AI assistants.
For MCP discovery, this listing helps crawlers connect Phở Research Tools to tool, resource, prompt, and server-health signals instead of treating it as a generic directory entry.
The canonical Tedix directory URL is https://tedix.dev/apps/ph-research-tools/.
Crawlable Profile
Source and availability
Tedix identifies Phở Research Tools from Upstream Mcp tool source; Store sources: Claude connector directory; Distribution: Ecosystem Directory; Tenant install: A platform catalog operator must create or reconcile the base app before tenants can install this entry..
- Claude connector directoryAuth not flagged · RELEASED
Auth, tools, and actions
Authentication: Open Access. No special capability flags are currently listed. Current MCP inventory reports 5 tools, 0 resources, and 0 prompts.
- Check retractions · Read-only action
Check DOIs for retractions, expressions of concern and corrections, using Crossref (which includes Retraction Watch data). Status per DOI: retracted, concern, corrected, other_notice, no_notice (nothing on record), not_in_crossref, invalid_doi, rate_limited or lookup_failed (the DOI could not be checked, which is not a clean result). Works for a single paper or a whole reference list.
- Format citations · Read-only action
Format references in a citation style (APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago author-date, Harvard, Vancouver, IEEE, AMA) or export them as BibTeX, RIS or CSL-JSON. By default every reference is first verified against Crossref, PubMed and OpenAlex, and verified references are formatted from the database record, so wrong years, pages or author names in the input are corrected. References that could not be verified are formatted exactly as written and flagged in `entries[].warnings`. Returns the bibliography and, for text and html output, the matching in-text citation for each reference.
- PRISMA 2020 flow diagram · Read-only action
Draw a PRISMA 2020 flow diagram for a new systematic review from the record counts, as a PNG image plus an SVG and download links. Give the counts you have; boxes that follow arithmetically from others are filled in and marked as derived. The tool checks that the numbers add up (records identified minus removed equals screened, and so on) and returns a warning naming each box that does not, with the value it should have. The diagram always shows the numbers exactly as given. Add `otherMethods` counts to draw the second column (websites, organisations, citation searching).
- Search papers · Read-only action
Search PubMed and OpenAlex for real papers. Every result carries a DOI or PubMed ID that resolves, so nothing returned can be fabricated. Finds sources for a claim or a topic. Filters: publication year range, open-access only, study types, and the number of results. Retracted papers are left out by default. Preprints are included and marked `preprint: true` (not peer reviewed). Results are ranked by the databases' relevance, alternating between the two sources.
- Verify references · Read-only action
Check every reference in a list against Crossref, PubMed and OpenAlex and report, for each one, whether the paper really exists and whether the details are right. Works on lists written by a person or generated by an AI model. Input: a pasted reference list in any common style (APA, Vancouver, numbered, mixed), BibTeX, RIS, CSL-JSON, or one DOI per line. Each reference gets exactly one status: verified, verified_with_corrections (real paper, some details wrong; corrected metadata included), likely_fabricated (no such paper exists), not_found (could not be confirmed either way), retracted, or ambiguous (several papers fit). likely_fabricated, not_found and ambiguous mean the reference could not be confirmed as a real paper; retracted means the paper exists but has been withdrawn. At most 50 references per call.
Verification freshness
- Catalog synced2h ago (October 18, 2026)
- Connector checked17h ago (October 17, 2026)
- MCP scanned17h ago (October 17, 2026)
- Directory updated2h ago (October 18, 2026)
Alternatives and related apps
Comparable apps in Education include 2hongo, A-Z Holy Bible, API Lessons, Academic Writing Toolkit.
Publisher Intelligence
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Visitor takeaway
62/100
Fair AI-discovery coverage across description, prompts, keywords, visuals, tool metadata, health, and freshness.
Routing category
Education
This app has a primary category, so visitors can browse and compare it in the right directory context.
Connector evidence
Reachable
Tedix can reach this MCP endpoint and can show live capability evidence when tools are discovered.
Directory freshness
2h ago
Catalog metadata was refreshed 2h ago (October 18, 2026).
Server Statuspho-research-tools v0.1.0
https://mcp.pho.chat/mcpLast checked: 17h ago
Server Instructions
Phở Research Tools check scholarly references against Crossref, PubMed and OpenAlex. verify_references checks a reference list, check_retractions looks up retraction and correction notices, search_papers finds real papers with resolvable identifiers, format_citations builds a bibliography, and prisma_flow_diagram draws a PRISMA 2020 diagram. Results are lookups in public databases, not opinions: likely_fabricated means the DOI is not registered or no matching record was found in these databases.
Technical Details
Tools(5)
Showing 5 of 5 tools
| Flags | Test | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
check_retractions | Check DOIs for retractions, expressions of concern and corrections, using Crossref (which includes Retraction Watch data). Status per DOI: retracted, concern, corrected, other_notice, no_notice (nothing on record), not_in_crossref, invalid_doi, rate_limited or lookup_failed (the DOI could not be checked, which is not a clean result). Works for a single paper or a whole reference list. | read-only | Not tested | — | — |
format_citations | Format references in a citation style (APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago author-date, Harvard, Vancouver, IEEE, AMA) or export them as BibTeX, RIS or CSL-JSON. By default every reference is first verified against Crossref, PubMed and OpenAlex, and verified references are formatted from the database record, so wrong years, pages or author names in the input are corrected. References that could not be verified are formatted exactly as written and flagged in `entries[].warnings`. Returns the bibliography and, for text and html output, the matching in-text citation for each reference. | read-only | Not tested | — | — |
prisma_flow_diagram | Draw a PRISMA 2020 flow diagram for a new systematic review from the record counts, as a PNG image plus an SVG and download links. Give the counts you have; boxes that follow arithmetically from others are filled in and marked as derived. The tool checks that the numbers add up (records identified minus removed equals screened, and so on) and returns a warning naming each box that does not, with the value it should have. The diagram always shows the numbers exactly as given. Add `otherMethods` counts to draw the second column (websites, organisations, citation searching). | read-only | Not tested | — | — |
search_papers | Search PubMed and OpenAlex for real papers. Every result carries a DOI or PubMed ID that resolves, so nothing returned can be fabricated. Finds sources for a claim or a topic. Filters: publication year range, open-access only, study types, and the number of results. Retracted papers are left out by default. Preprints are included and marked `preprint: true` (not peer reviewed). Results are ranked by the databases' relevance, alternating between the two sources. | read-only | Not tested | — | — |
verify_references | Check every reference in a list against Crossref, PubMed and OpenAlex and report, for each one, whether the paper really exists and whether the details are right. Works on lists written by a person or generated by an AI model. Input: a pasted reference list in any common style (APA, Vancouver, numbered, mixed), BibTeX, RIS, CSL-JSON, or one DOI per line. Each reference gets exactly one status: verified, verified_with_corrections (real paper, some details wrong; corrected metadata included), likely_fabricated (no such paper exists), not_found (could not be confirmed either way), retracted, or ambiguous (several papers fit). likely_fabricated, not_found and ambiguous mean the reference could not be confirmed as a real paper; retracted means the paper exists but has been withdrawn. At most 50 references per call. | read-only | Not tested | — | — |
Discoverability Score
Fair
62 / 100
How easily AI agents can find this app from its current catalog metadata.
- Description quality20/20
- Example prompts0/20
- Keyword coverage0/15
- Category clarity5/5
- Tool metadata20/20
- Visual assets8/20
- Endpoint health10/10
- Data freshness15/15
How to Improve
Add at least 2 example prompts. Prompt examples strongly improve app matching and click-through intent.
Increase keyword coverage (discovery + trigger) to improve retrieval for long-tail queries.
Add at least 2 screenshots that show real workflows to increase confidence and conversion.
Technical Details
- Status
- ENABLED
- Type
- AI-Powered App
- Auth
- Open Access
- Listed on
- Claude Connector
- Added
- October 6, 2026
- Last synced
- 2h ago
- Last checked
- 17h ago
- Version
- 0.1.0
- Distribution
- Ecosystem Directory
