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title: ToolRouter — Agent Use Case Guide
description: Step-by-step guide for completing a task with a specific AI agent using ToolRouter.
url: https://toolrouter.com/tools/academic-research/use-cases/find-research-citations/claude
---
# How to Find Citations with Claude

Claude follows citation chains through multi-step investigation. Get the references for a seminal paper, identify the most-cited sources, then trace those backward to find the foundational work. The conversation naturally builds a citation map that reveals the intellectual lineage of ideas in any field.

## Setup

claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp

## Steps

1. Connect ToolRouter: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
2. Ask Claude: "Get the details and citations for this paper using academic-research" and provide the paper ID or title
3. Claude returns the paper metadata and reference list
4. Ask: "Which of its references are most cited?"
5. Follow the citation chain to related papers

## Example Prompt

```
Get the full citation list for the "Attention Is All You Need" paper. Which of its references are the most influential?
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## Tips

- Use citation chains to discover seminal papers you might have missed
- Ask Claude to identify the most-cited references to find foundational work
- Build a citation map by following references recursively
