VerusCite, a new application by crime analyst Andrew Wheeler, checks academic documents for hallucinated references, processing papers for about $0.50 each using cheap AI models and a $40-per-month ho…
A developer built Paper Finder, a free AI-powered research tool that searches arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and Crossref and re-ranks results using a browser-based AI model. The developer debugged a 7-seco…
Developer Tobias O. S. released citecheck, an open-source CLI that verifies academic references against public scholarly APIs. The tool checks BibTeX, RIS, or CSL-JSON files for existence, distinguish…
A developer built sourcecheck, an open-source tool that verifies AI-generated citations against registries like OpenAlex and Crossref, and found that top models including GPT-5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5 c…
A developer building technical dossiers warns against asking LLMs to verify their own hallucinated citations, as the model lacks access to a real database and suffers from self-evaluation bias. Instea…