CiteWatch

CiteWatch is a web app (with optional desktop connector) for libraries, research offices, and small publishers to monitor citation impact and open-access compliance across departments and authors. It pulls publication records from Crossref, OpenAlex, and ORCID, then normalizes messy metadata (duplicate DOIs, name variants, affiliation drift) into a clean institutional view. Users get dashboards for citation trends, field-normalized metrics, and funder/mandate compliance (e.g., OA status, embargo dates, repository deposit checks). An AI layer flags suspicious spikes, self-citation anomalies, and likely missing outputs, and drafts short narrative summaries for reports—while keeping raw metric calculations transparent and auditable. The goal is not to “beat” Scopus/Web of Science, but to provide a cheaper, defensible, institution-owned analytics layer using open data plus lightweight curation workflows.