Suggested Citation Replacement
When a reference comes back Not Found, CiteTrue can suggest real, related papers you might have meant.
What is Suggested Citation Replacement?
When a citation can't be found — likely fabricated, mistyped, or referring to something that doesn't exist — CiteTrue can suggest 2–3 real papers that plausibly match the cited claim. You can use them to replace the bad citation, or as a starting point for finding the source you actually meant.
When you'll see it
Suggestions are offered only after a citation has been Deep Verified and still came back Not Found. That two-step gate (Fast → Deep → Suggest) prevents wasting credits on cases where a quick re-run would have found the source.
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The button only appears on Not Found cards that have already been Deep Verified. Clicking it runs the suggestion pipeline and reveals the candidates inline.
What the result looks like
You get up to 3 candidate papers, each with title, authors, year, and a link. Click the copy button to grab a citation in your preferred style, or the open-link button to read the source.
How it works
The suggestion engine extracts the topic, authors, and surrounding context from your original citation and searches for related work across academic databases. AI then ranks the candidates by how well they match the cited claim.
- Triggered on demand — credits are consumed only when you click the button.
- Particularly useful when an AI hallucinated the reference or when you mistyped author/year/title.
- Candidates are de-duplicated across databases and ranked by relevance to the original claim.
Tips
- If your batch came back with several Not Found results, run Deep Verify on each first — Suggested Replacements is gated on Deep, and a Deep pass sometimes recovers the original.
- The candidates are suggestions, not direct replacements — read each one to confirm it actually supports your argument before swapping it in.
- If none of the suggestions are right, the cited work might not exist at all. Consider revising the claim or finding a different source.