CiteStamp records who said what about which paper — signed, typed,
timestamped, public. It does not grade claims, store papers, or sell data. It keeps
a log.
The rules we don’t break
Signed and machine-inferred never mix. Every answer says which kind of edge
it is and who stands behind it.
No verdicts. The product is accountability, not judgment.
Papers, not people. Claims connect works. The format makes targeting a person
or institution impossible, on purpose.
Nothing of yours is stored. No full text, no abstracts, no personal data —
only links between public identifiers, dedicated to the public domain.
The log is forkable. CC0, mirrored on GitHub, independently replayable.
Trust the math, not the operator.
Questions people ask
Is CiteStamp a citation database like Google Scholar or scite?
No. CiteStamp is a notary, not a database. It records typed citation claims — signed by named researchers or inferred by machine sweeps — on a public, append-only log. It stores no full text, no abstracts, and issues no verdicts.
What does it cost?
Asking is free and anonymous. Signing keys are free for independent researchers, issued by hand. The business model charges institutions and AI companies for hosted, high-volume access — not researchers.
Who is behind it?
CiteStamp is built and operated by 3Rivers Enterprises LLC in Fort Wayne, Indiana. ICSAC — the Institute for Complexity Science and Advanced Computing — shares a founder and publishes on CiteStamp rails; the graph gives ICSAC content no special treatment.
Can a signed claim be deleted?
No — and that is the point. A claim signed in error is retracted by a second signed, public event that points at the first. Both stay on the log, so the record is never silently rewritten.
What happens to the data if CiteStamp shuts down?
The signed log is CC0 and mirrored publicly on GitHub. Anyone can fork it and rebuild the graph — the record is designed to outlive its operator.
Contact
Everything goes through info@citestamp.com —
key requests, API access, press, problems. A human reads it.