Academic citation verification across heterogeneous sources
A reference can be real and still be wrong for the sentence using it. The system needed to distinguish existence, metadata accuracy and evidential relevance.
The problem
Citations arrive as incomplete prose, DOI strings, mixed formats or model-generated text. Individual scholarly APIs have different coverage and identifiers.
The system
Parse and normalize the input, search five scholarly sources, reconcile candidates, compare fields and present confidence without hiding uncertainty.
The evidence
Users see source links, title and author differences, publication metadata and an explicit explanation of what was or was not verified.
- Multi-source retrieval pipeline
- Field-level mismatch detection
- Rate-limit and partial-result handling
- Production web integration