What problem does it solve?
Academic papers often contain subtle citation errors that lead to rejection, retraction, or credibility loss: these include hallucinated references, mismatched metadata (wrong authors, year, or venue), and dangerous wrong-context citations where a real paper is cited to support a claim it does not actually make. Manually checking every citation against canonical sources is time-consuming and error-prone, especially for papers with large bibliographies.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Three-layer citation verification: Checks existence of the cited paper, correctness of metadata (authors, title, year, venue), and whether the cited work actually supports the claim it is used for in the manuscript.
- Pre-submission audit gate: Designed to run after paper drafting is complete, before final submission to conferences (e.g., MICCAI) or journals, to catch errors that reviewers will flag.
- Optional extended checks: Supports opt-in uncited entry detection to clean up unused bibliography entries, and soft-only mode for workflows where the .bib file is frozen and only sentence rewrites are allowed.
Quick Start
Use the citation-audit skill to run a full bibliography integrity check on your LaTeX paper and .bib reference file before submitting to a conference or journal.
