scholar-citation-verify

Spot fabricated or missing citations by running a four-layer verification process that checks citation format, confirms existence through external scholarly sources, matches metadata, and scores overall confidence for submission-ready reference management.

Yes, BibTeX references are checked against scholarly databases like Google Scholar and Crossref. The verification mechanism confirms the existence of references, matches metadata, and scores overall confidence to detect weak or fake citations.

Find undefined or duplicate citation keys by scanning LaTeX and BibTeX sources to detect unused, undefined, and duplicate references. The generated verification report classifies these issues for conservative BibTeX correction before final submission.

Yes, the citation verification process can apply conservative auto-fixes for clear BibTeX issues. It produces a detailed verification report and generates a clean fix log to correct mismatches and missing references.

The best way to detect fake scholarly references is using a layered validation workflow that checks format rules, performs existence lookups, matches metadata, and classifies issues to produce a confidence-scored verification report.