paper-review-system vs refcheck
paper-review-system is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by lidapengpeng. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). refcheck is an MCP server published by benchoi93. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-27. This pair was picked by a reader, not by our comparison rule, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  paper-review-system | |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Listed Version: 2.2.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 2 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.1.0 Downloads/month (PyPI): 98 Downloads/week (PyPI): 22 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | paper-review-system | refcheck |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 2 | No figure on GitHub |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 0 | No figure on GitHub |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (refcheck-mcp) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | 2, secrets among them: 1 | 5, secrets among them: 4 |
| Hooks it runs (differs) | 1 | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 11 | Not a bundle |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/lidapengpeng/paper-review-system | github.com/umn-choi-lab/refcheck |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First seen | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-11 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.
What each says it does
paper-review-system
Automated academic paper review system for Claude Code. Integrates PDF parsing (marker-pdf + PyMuPDF), reference verification (CrossRef + DBLP + Semantic Scholar), SOTA comparison, and competitive paper analysis within a structured multi-phase review pipeline. Features venue-adaptive review strategies for 15+ top CS conferences (CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ECCV, ICCV, ACL, AAAI, KDD, MICCAI, etc.), powered by distilled methodologies from 10 senior conference reviewers. Includes 8-dimension scoring, statistical rigor checks, automated quick assessment, rebuttal assistance, and parallel agent-based review architecture. Components: 3 commands (/review-paper, /pre-screen, /rebuttal), 4 specialized agents, 1 skill with 5 reference files, 2 MCP servers (11 tools total), automated dependency checking, and a quick assessment script.
refcheck
Verify academic citations against real databases. Catches hallucinated references, exports BibTeX.
How to run each
paper-review-system As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install paper-review-system@claude-communityrefcheck As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --env "ELSEVIER_INSTTOKEN=<YOUR_ELSEVIER_INSTTOKEN>" --env "ELSEVIER_KEY=<YOUR_ELSEVIER_KEY>" --env "IEEE_API_KEY=<YOUR_IEEE_API_KEY>" --env "S2_API_KEY=<YOUR_S2_API_KEY>" --transport stdio refcheck -- uvx refcheck-mcpRequires: ELSEVIER_INSTTOKEN (secret), ELSEVIER_KEY (secret), IEEE_API_KEY (secret), S2_API_KEY (secret)
Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
Only paper-review-system asks for
CROSSREF_MAILTOSEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY (secret)
Only refcheck asks for
CROSSREF_EMAILELSEVIER_INSTTOKEN (secret)ELSEVIER_KEY (secret)IEEE_API_KEY (secret)S2_API_KEY (secret)
Settings as each marketplace publishes them. Asking for fewer is not better in itself.
What it can do: paper-review-system · What it can do: refcheck · Compare two other plugins
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