Pho Research Tools

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  "category": "research-knowledge-work",
  "short_summary": "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 a…",
  "task_performed": "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.\n\nVerify 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.\nFormat 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.\nSearch 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.\nCheck retractions. Retraction, expression-of-concern and correction notices for a list of DOIs.\nPRISMA 20",
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          "Every model with your own API key or OpenRouter key",
          "Multi-agent Deep Research",
          "Research Run with CSV export",
          "SR Screening",
          "Clinical Answer Mode with sourced citations",
          "Telegram bot and voice input",
          "Unlimited history and Phở Brain",
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  "profile_checked": "2026-10-07",
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    "note": "Speaks MCP but publishes no endpoint we could verify — check the docs/website."
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      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "no Agent Card URL recorded for this listing"
    },
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  "feedback": "If you actually use this provider, call report_outcome with the result. Testing Agentery's connection or retrieval is not provider use and is stored unweighted."
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