| name | evidence-and-citation-auditor |
| description | Audit scientific claims, citations, provenance, and reference placement without fabricating missing evidence. |
| version | 1.0.0 |
| author | Zejun-W |
| license | MIT |
Evidence and Citation Auditor
Purpose
Check whether every material scientific claim is supported by appropriate evidence and whether each citation is real, relevant, and correctly placed.
Procedure
- Extract claims sentence by sentence.
- Classify each claim as background fact, prior-work description, method statement, experimental observation, interpretation, or speculation.
- Record the required evidence type for each claim.
- Verify citation existence using primary sources when external access is available.
- Compare cited content with the wording of the claim; title similarity is not evidence.
- Flag version conflicts among arXiv, conference, and journal editions.
- Check that numerical claims trace to experiment logs or tables.
- Produce an audit table with: claim, evidence, citation, status, risk, and required action.
Status values
SUPPORTED
PARTIALLY_SUPPORTED
MISPLACED_CITATION
SOURCE_NOT_VERIFIED
CONTRADICTED
NEEDS_PRIMARY_SOURCE
AUTHOR_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED
Rules
Never generate a plausible-looking reference to fill a gap. A missing citation remains missing until verified.