For researchers who publish without the machine

CiteStamp

Every claim signed by who said it.

When you publish outside a journal, your reference list is just text. Google Scholar hands you a number, Scopus pretends you don’t exist, and the AI summarizing your field is guessing. CiteStamp turns citations into signed, public claims — supports, refutes, extends, not just “cites” — with your name welded to every one.

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Your name on the record

Journals get citation machinery. You don’t have a journal — now you don’t need one. Each claim you sign lands on a permanent public log, timestamped and chained to every claim before it, impossible to quietly edit. Your priority trail, in public, with receipts.

Citations that say something

“Cites” is the least informative word in scholarship — forty entries in a reference list and not one says why. CiteStamp edges are typed: this paper supports mine, refutes that result, extends a method, uses a dataset. How your work actually sits in the literature, readable by people and software alike.

A place for AIs to check

AI assistants invent citations constantly — ask anyone who has actually checked a model’s bibliography. CiteStamp runs the live endpoint agents query before they cite, so when an AI talks about your work there’s a signed record to consult instead of vibes.

How it works

Paste a DOI. Yours or anyone’s — preprints, Zenodo deposits, journal papers, datasets.

Draft. The reference list is pulled from open scholarly data. You pick which relationships are real and what kind they are.

Sign. The claim is signed under your researcher identity — server-side, no keys to manage — and appended to the open log. CC0, permanent, attributable.

See it in action

A half-minute of the real service — ask the live graph, open a paper page, expand the citation map. Nothing staged.

A force-directed map of a paper's citation neighborhood — signed claims in solid gold, machine-inferred edges in dashed steel — Walk the graph as a live map — signed gold, inferred steel

Asking the live citation graph about a paper — each answer carries a signed or inferred chip — Ask the graph about any DOI — anonymous, instant

A public paper page listing outgoing and incoming citation claims in both tiers — Every paper gets a public page

The ORCID claim picker listing machine-inferred citations ready to be signed — Claim your work with ORCID, sign what is yours

The rules we don’t break

Signed and machine-inferred never mix. Every answer tells you which kind of edge it is and who stands behind it.
No verdicts. CiteStamp doesn’t grade claims. It records who put their name on one — that’s the whole product.
Papers, not people. You can refute a paper. You can never target a person or an institution. The format makes it impossible, on purpose.
No coin. The crypto citation graphs make you buy something before your word counts. Here your word is the asset — signed JSON on a public log anyone can fork.
Nothing of yours is stored. No full text, no abstracts, no personal data — only links between public identifiers, dedicated to the public domain.

Free for independent researchers. The plan is to charge institutions and AI companies — not you. Signing keys are issued by hand while we’re small: info@citestamp.com.

Try it now

Ask the live graph about any identifier. No account — anonymous asking is limited to 10 a minute.

Ground

What does the graph say about a paper?

signed only

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