Scholar Sidekick – citation verifier for the "real DOI, wrong paper"

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Scholar Sidekick – citation verifier for the "real DOI, wrong paper" operates in show hn launch.

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One of the harder AI citation failures is quite simple: the identifier is real, but the citation is still fake. The DOI resolves, but to a different paper - not the paper the citation claims it is.Topaz et al. reported their findings on citation hallucination in May in The Lancet. They scanned 2.5 million PubMed Central articles and estimated that 1 in 277 contained a fabricated citation. Some of their examples were this exact pattern: real identifier, fabricated title.I originally built Scholar Sidekick as a formatter for my own use as a clinician-educator preparing talks, articles, etc. After reading the Topaz paper, I added a verifier to catch the most common pattern they found: a real id

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Website: scholar-sidekick.com/tools/citation-verifier