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AI-drafted citations can look completely legitimate — right journal, right format, right-sounding title — and still be fabricated. Formatting checkers can't catch that; they only verify the shape of a citation, not whether the paper is real.
AccuraCite cross-checks every citation against 6 independent academic databases (OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, DBLP, arXiv) and only marks something verified when multiple independent sources agree, so a single fabricated or mismatched source can't slip through. It also flags retracted papers separately, since a citation can be real and still be one that shouldn't be cited.
A second mode finds real papers whose full abstracts actually support a given claim, not just papers whose titles sound related.
On an independent leak-free benchmark, AccuraCite catches 99.4% of fabricated citations at 90.1% overall accuracy. Free to try, no login required to verify a citation.