citeguard — retracted citation checker
Version updated for https://github.com/wedo911/citeguard to version v0.1.2.
- This action is used across all versions by ? repositories.
Action Type
This is a Composite action.
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Action Summary
This GitHub Action automates the verification of citations in academic papers and research outputs by checking against Crossref’s real API to detect retracted publications. It provides a simple command-line interface and integrates with MCP servers for automated checks, ensuring that retractions are accurately flagged before being included in documents or reviews. The action helps researchers maintain up-to-date and accurate bibliographies by reducing the risk of citing retracted papers.
What’s Changed
Adds CITATION.cff, so the repository is formally citable: GitHub renders a Cite this repository button from it, and it is the metadata Zenodo reads when archiving a release and minting a DOI.
No functional change. The detection logic, the CLI, the MCP server and the Action are byte-identical to v0.1.1. This release exists to produce an archived, citable snapshot.
Verification
All checks were run locally before tagging:
- 55 Python tests — passed
- 17 TypeScript tests — passed
CITATION.cff— valid against CFF schema 1.2.0
GitHub Actions did not pick up this commit (the two preceding runs ended in startup_failure and cancelled jobs, and no run was queued for this one) — an Actions-side issue, not a code failure; the same workflow passed on earlier commits and other repositories in this account ran fine at the same time. Noting it here rather than implying a green CI badge that was never produced.