Notes on citation verification, AI hallucination detection, and catching fabricated references before they cost you.
AccuraCite now ships an MCP server for Claude, Cursor, and other MCP clients — the consensus verification engine, not a single tool call, exposed over MCP.
Read ArticleWe tested AccuraCite's Find Citations feature against a naive AI answer and a naive title match, on claims about obscure, recent research. The grounded pipeline won by a wide margin.
Read ArticleA citation can be 100% real, correctly matched, and still be a paper you shouldn't cite. Here's what a retraction is, how AccuraCite detects it across three databases, and two real cases that prove it works.
Read ArticleA DOI that resolves isn't proof a citation is real. Here's what DOI verification actually checks, the ways a DOI can be wrong, and how to check one properly.
Read ArticleWe tested AccuraCite against 918 real citations, including citations built specifically to be hard to catch. It caught 99.4% of the fakes.
Read ArticleReviewers rarely have time to check 60 references by hand. Here's how to bulk-verify a manuscript's citations before you submit your review.
Read ArticleWe compared AccuraCite, Citely, GPTZero, and CiteTrue as citation checkers, verifying vendor claims directly instead of repeating unconfirmed numbers.
Read ArticleAsking ChatGPT for a source often returns a hallucinated citation or a real paper that doesn't back your claim. Here's how to find sources that actually do.
Read ArticleA citation-verification tool told us a famous 2017 paper was published in 2025 by a fake publisher. Here's the real bug, and the fix AccuraCite shipped.
Read ArticleA real duplicate DOI impersonates a famous 2017 paper seven times over in Crossref. What it means for verifying manuscript references before publication.
Read ArticleDid ChatGPT give you real sources? Here's how to check every citation in your own paper before you submit it, in one pass instead of Googling each by hand.
Read ArticleMCP lets an LLM call academic APIs directly. That sounds like it solves citation hallucination. It doesn't, by itself — here's the actual failure mode, with a real example.
Read ArticleTurnitin catches copied text, not fake sources. Here's how to bulk-check student papers for AI-hallucinated citations in one pass, without manually looking up every reference.
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