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reference-finder

Automatically finds and ranks PubMed references for each sentence in scientific text; use when you need titles, DOIs, and brief recommendation reasons from the PubMed E-utilities API.

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> **Source**: [https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills](https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills)

## When to Use

- You have a scientific paragraph and want suggested PubMed papers for **each sentence**.
- You need **top-ranked references** with **title, DOI, PMID, year**, and a short **why recommended** explanation.
- You are drafting or reviewing a manuscript and want quick **literature grounding** for key claims.
- You want a lightweight reference matcher that uses **only the official PubMed E-utilities API** (no third-party services).
- You need a scriptable tool for batch or CLI workflows to generate candidate citations.

## Key Features

- Sentence-level reference matching for scientific text.
- Returns the **top N (default: 3)** most relevant PubMed records per sentence.
- Outputs structured fields: **title, DOI, PMID, year, recommendation reason**.
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