CiteSleuth

CiteSleuth is a web app (with a lightweight browser extension) that audits the reliability of citations in manuscripts, grant drafts, and lab reports. Users upload a DOCX/PDF or paste text; the app extracts references, resolves DOIs, checks metadata consistency (authors, year, journal, title), flags retracted/expressions-of-concern papers, and detects “citation laundering” patterns (claims supported by irrelevant sources). It also highlights where a sentence’s claim likely isn’t supported by the cited paper, using an AI-assisted claim-to-abstract/full-text match when available. The output is a clean report: broken links, missing DOIs, duplicates, suspicious references, and a prioritized fix list. This is not a magic truth machine—many checks are probabilistic and the app will be wrong sometimes—but it can eliminate the most common, embarrassing, and time-wasting citation failures quickly.