CiteWarden

🔎 CiteWarden — Citation Integrity Forensics

AI fabricates references with total confidence. CiteWarden fights back: paste any text and it extracts every citation, live-verifies each one against authoritative registries, and flags fabrications with evidence.

• 🌐 Project page: https://rudra496.github.io/citewarden/
• 💻 Source: https://github.com/rudra496/citewarden

What it does

• Extracts every citation — APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, numbered or narrative
• Live verification — checks titles, authors, years, venues and identifiers against real registries
• Fabrication flags — invented DOIs, wrong venues, ghost authors surface with side-by-side evidence
• Report-first workflow — a claim→source audit table you can act on

Built for

Researchers reviewing AI-assisted manuscripts, editors fighting reference spam, and students who want their bibliographies to survive a reviewer.

Recognition

LexHack 2026 entry.

Tech stack

Python · LLM-assisted extraction with deterministic verification (the verifier never trusts the generator) · open registry APIs

Built With

• crossref
• llm
• python