Claricite
Verify references in academic PDFs and detect unverifiable or AI-hallucinated citations. A fast, cross-platform command-line tool for researchers, reviewers, and publishers.
🔍 Native local reference extraction with optional GROBID support
🌐 Cross-references citations against major academic databases
📊 Generates a clear HTML verification report
🚀 Portable single-file binaries with no installation required
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Documentation and source code are available on GitHub .
Official Claricite releases for Windows, macOS, and Linux are published through the GitHub repository.
Open the latest release and expand the Assets section to download the appropriate build.
🔬 Verified Reference (Go ahead, click the DOI):
Han, C., Manoharan, S., Ye, X., & Speidel, U. (2026). Phantom citations: An empirical study of non-existent and unverifiable references in scholarly literature. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70104