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Every reference,
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registries.
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From claim to decision
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Most checkers collapse uncertainty into a badge. StrictCite keeps the record open: what you wrote, what each registry returned, why they disagree, and what you decided.
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Vaswani et al., “Attention Is All You Need”
| DataCite | 2017 | match |
|---|---|---|
| DBLP | 2017 | match |
| OpenAlex | 2017 | match |
| Your citation | 2016 | differs |
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YOUR ENTRY
Advances in NIPS, 2016
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2017
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- Year
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A preprint year is not automatically wrong. A journal abbreviation is not necessarily an error. An unanswered registry is not proof that a paper does not exist.
Explore the adjudication rules ↗aTwo years, one paper
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cA retracted paper gets flagged, with the notice attached
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Parsing happens inside your browser. Registry lookups leave from your IP. Then you choose where the resulting audit history lives: only on this device, or in your account's cloud archive.
aIdentifiers cross the boundary. The manuscript does not.
bTraffic during one audit, schematic
The work remains useful after the audit
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Notes from the
scholarly record.
- 4conferences NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and ACL desk-rejected papers over references that don’t exist. ↗
- 178papers rejected NeurIPS rejected position papers as “AI-generated.” The detector flagged the track chairs too. ↗
- 3 of 4cases invented A federal Tax Court brief cited four cases. Three don’t exist. ↗
- 5fake copies “Attention Is All You Need” has five fabricated twins on Crossref. ↗
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