For researchers

Journals get citation machinery. You don’t need a journal.

Every identifier in the graph gets a public page and a map you can walk: what your work cites, what cites it, and what kind of relationship each one is. Preprints, Zenodo deposits and datasets are in it, not only what the big indexes chose to cover. It is free, it needs no account, and the record is CC0, so it outlives any one operator including us.

A force-directed map of a paper's citation neighborhood: signed claims in solid gold, machine-inferred edges in dashed steel — walk any paper’s neighborhood, signed gold and inferred steel

What the record gives you

A public page for your paper. Every identifier in the graph gets one, listing what your work cites and what cites it, each claim labelled signed or inferred.
Citations that say something. Plain “cites” is flat. Typed claims record that a paper supports yours, refutes a result, extends a method, uses your dataset.
A priority trail. Signed claims are timestamped and chained on a public log. When it matters who said what first, the record is already public and already ordered.
A place AI assistants check. CiteStamp runs a live endpoint AI agents query before they cite, so when an AI summarizes your field there is a public, labelled record to consult instead of a guess.

A public paper page: the claim button on top, citation claims labelled signed or inferred listed below — your paper’s public page, claim button right on top

Claim your paper in two minutes

Machine sweeps of Zenodo and SSRN metadata have already mapped citations for hundreds of thousands of works. Search your DOI on the main page, open the paper page, and follow Claim with ORCID: pick the citations that are really yours and put your name on them. Your ORCID sign-in proves identity; authorship is checked against the work’s own metadata, and a human curator handles anything the metadata can’t settle.

The claim page for a work already in the graph: the count of machine-inferred citation claims on it, and the Sign in with ORCID button that starts the claim — two minutes, start to signed

And check your references before a reviewer does

AI writing tools invent citations: plausible authors, real-looking DOIs, papers that were never written. arXiv suspends authors over it. Paste your bibliography into the health check and every reference is checked in your browser: does it resolve, does the title match its DOI, is it marked retracted. Free, unlimited, no account, and your bibliography is never uploaded; no document ever reaches us.

Why in-browser matters: the checkers you have heard of ask you to upload your reference list to their servers. Ours parses in your browser and looks each reference up one identifier at a time, straight from your machine to the open registries (Crossref, DataCite, OpenAlex). Open your network tab and watch. There is no server-side copy of your bibliography to retain, leak, or train on. And because the check covers DataCite as well as Crossref and OpenAlex, references to Zenodo, Dryad, and figshare deposits resolve here instead of getting flagged as missing.

What it costs

The checker, the graph, the paper pages, and signing your own work: free. Pro is $35 a year — a higher-rate API token for people and programs that hit the graph hard, and a way to keep an independent citation graph running. The pricing page lists exactly what Pro includes today; nothing on it is a preview. Signing keys for the full minting surface are issued by hand while the service is small: info@citestamp.com.

What we will never do with your data

There is almost none to misuse. The graph stores links between public identifiers — no full text, no abstracts, no personal data on the record. Claims are CC0 and the whole log is publicly forkable, so the record outlives any one operator, including us.

Start here: open the graph and search your DOI. If your paper is in the sweep, the claim button is one click away. Submitting something instead? Check the bibliography first.