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Your research deserves an accurate review. Upload your paper and get an AI-powered citation audit in seconds.

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Key Features

Check citations in seconds.

Check citations in seconds.

Upload your paper and our AI scans every claim against its source — catching misquoted numbers, wrong attributions, review-vs-original errors, and fully hallucinated references.

All your sources, in one place.

All your sources, in one place.

No manual searching or downloading. CiteLM finds referenced articles on the web automatically, or connect your Zotero library to work with what you already have.

See exactly what's wrong

See exactly what's wrong

— right in your document. Incorrect citations are marked inline, so you always know precisely which sentence has a problem and why.

Understand issues with AI chat

Understand issues with AI chat

Get specific suggestions for every flagged citation, and chat directly with the AI to understand the problem and find the right source.

Researcher reading a paper with hallucinated citations

Hallucinated and Wrong References: Are Broken Citations Eroding Trust in Science?

A 2026 Nature analysis found that tens of thousands of academic publications may contain fake or faulty references generated by AI — citations that look real but lead nowhere. Here's why it matters, and what publishers and researchers can do about it.

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The AI Paradox in Research: Adopt Fast, Trust Slowly

According to a 2025 survey of the publishing company Wiley of nearly 5,000 researchers across 70 countries, most scientists are already using AI tools — yet nearly two-thirds worry about hallucinations and inaccuracies. With AI-assisted research expected to become mainstream within two years, the demand for automated tools that make science more reliable and peer review more rigorous is becoming impossible to ignore.

Already use AI for research and publication

The volume of scientific papers published today makes thorough peer review nearly impossible. It’s no surprise that citation errors slip through undetected — nobody has time to trace every reference back to its source. An automated citation checker is exactly what science needs to become more rigorous and reproducible.

Professor, RWTH Aachen

While writing my master’s thesis, I spent hours trying to pin down the actual number of retinal ganglion cells in rats. Paper after paper cited the same figure — but when I finally tracked down the original source, the number referred to a completely different species. This tool would have caught that instantly.

Master’s student, Stanford University

Millions of papers are published every year, and every single one relies on citations that nobody is systematically verifying. The market for a tool that solves this at scale is enormous — and the downstream impact on scientific integrity makes it one of the most meaningful bets in research tech right now.

Founder, Deep Tech Venture

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