AI Scientific Reference Checker

Scientific article references can be incorrect by accident or hallucinated by an LLM. Importantly, they can be misleading on purpose when generated by a paper mill. I wanted to create a way to screen references, primarily for accuracy. Gemini recommended that I verify references by accessing the following resources: DOI, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and the Directory of Open Access Journals. That worked fine but missed pre-print journals. I added arXiv, which is particularly important for computer science-related articles, and made a few minor tweaks. The end result is that it checks these different resources before rating the references as low, medium, or high risk. In the lower left is the page where you upload the article and the report appears in the lower right.