How to Verify Academic Paper Citations Online Before You Trust Them
Verify academic paper citations online with a practical workflow for checking sources, page numbers, DOI records, and AI-generated references before you...
Source Check
Requests for help checking citations, quotations, statistics, links, dates, names, and primary sources. Bring the exact claim to inspect.
I built a browser bookmark system for checking AI claims—what source types should it include?
I built a bookmark folder for checking AI claims. It has 12 source types. I think it's missing at least four. Here's the full system and what I'm asking the community to add.
Four citations looked legitimate, but two were invented—what is your fastest first-pass check?
AI gave me four citations with authors, years, journals, and DOIs. Two were real. Two were fabricated. Here's the audit card and the fastest first-pass check I use.
How do you distinguish a real primary source from a page that repeats an AI claim?
I found five pages that all said the same thing about a statistic. Four of them were quoting each other. Only one had the actual data. Here's how I traced it back.