Every feature listed below is available to all researchers on your domain from day one - inside Microsoft Word and on the web.
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Retraction & Correction Monitor
Cross-references every citation against live retraction databases and publisher correction feeds. Flags full retractions, expressions of concern, and partial corrections - with source, date, and reason for each flag.
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Literature Gap Detection
AI analyses the manuscript's claims and methodology to identify foundational and recent papers that a thorough literature review would be expected to include. Classified as Essential, Recommended, or Supplementary - each with a justification.
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Full Citation Audit
Nine-category AI audit covering citation quality, claim consistency, journal compliance, missing citations, self-citation rates, retraction status, geographic bias, coverage breadth, and format correctness. Returns an overall score with a detailed reviewer-style report.
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Citation Quality Checks
Automated local checks covering DOI coverage, metadata completeness, duplicate detection, reference recency, and bibliography formatting consistency - without requiring an AI call. Instant results on any manuscript size.
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Citation Suggester
Highlight any claim or sentence in the manuscript and receive 3–5 specific, real peer-reviewed paper suggestions that directly support it. Prioritises highly-cited and authoritative sources relevant to the field and citation style in use.
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Inline Citation Debugger
Inspects individual in-text citations against their bibliography entries. Detects format violations, year mismatches, missing metadata fields, punctuation errors, and bibliography orphans - with exact corrected versions for each error found.
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Multi-Style Preview
Renders the full bibliography side-by-side in multiple citation styles simultaneously - APA, MLA, Chicago, Vancouver, IEEE, Harvard, and more. Useful for researchers submitting to multiple journals or converting between style requirements.
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Paper Search - 200M+ Sources
Search Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex - covering over 200 million academic papers - directly from within Word. Find papers by title, author, or keyword, preview metadata, and add them to the citation list with one click.
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Broken DOI Checker
Pings every DOI in your reference list against doi.org in real time. Identifies DOIs that return 404 errors, server failures, or redirect loops - any of which would prevent reviewers from accessing your source papers.
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Self-Citation Checker
Enter your author surnames and SmartCiter calculates your self-citation rate across all linked references. Flags manuscripts where self-citations exceed 30% - a common trigger for reviewer complaints about citation manipulation.
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Narrative-to-Numeric Conversion
Converts author-date citations (Smith, 2020) and narrative forms (Smith (2020) found that…) to numbered formats - Vancouver [1], IEEE [1], AMA superscript - in one click. Each number is hyperlinked directly to its paper's DOI. Range citations [6–8] open all referenced papers via SmartCiter's multi-paper viewer.
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Uncited Claims Detector
AI scans your manuscript paragraph-by-paragraph for sentences making factual claims - "studies show", "it is known that", "research demonstrates" - without a citation. Returns a ranked list of unsupported statements for review. Operates entirely client-side without storing your text.
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Citation Context Balance
Analyses how citations are distributed across Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion sections. Detects sections with no citations, over-cited sections, and imbalanced reference distribution - a common pattern reviewers flag for insufficient evidence in key sections.
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AI Citation Q&A
A dedicated AI chat interface that reads your manuscript and bibliography together. Ask what citations are missing, what topics are under-referenced, or whether your reference list matches the scope of your argument. The AI identifies gaps - it never writes content for you.
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Predatory Journal Detection
Screens every journal in your reference list against a curated database of predatory and low-quality publishers. Flags known predatory publishers, hijacked journals, and vanity press operations - with the reason for each flag so you can make an informed substitution.
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CiteSight Pro - 10-Dimension Audit
Deep manuscript audit across ten scholarly dimensions: citation density, claim support, source authority, recency, diversity, field coverage, self-citation rate, format compliance, predatory sources, and retraction status. Returns a structured score with a reviewer-style commentary for each dimension.
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Research Mentor
AI mentor that reads your manuscript and gives structured guidance tailored to your academic level (student, PhD candidate, postdoc, senior researcher) and submission goal (journal, thesis, grant, conference). Scores manuscript readiness and provides a prioritised action plan before submission.
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Title to DOI Lookup
Paste any paper title and instantly retrieve its verified DOI from CrossRef. Batch mode accepts a list of titles and returns a full results table with matched title, authors, year, journal, confidence score, and DOI for each. No API key required. Export results as CSV.
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Gap Finder - Verified Paper Suggestions
After any analysis, ScholarScan identifies research gaps in your manuscript and retrieves real, CrossRef-verified papers from OpenAlex that address each gap. All suggested papers are independently verified - no AI-generated or hallucinated references. Results include DOI, citation count, and full citation in APA, Vancouver, or BibTeX.
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Style Converter
Paste any citation in any format and convert it instantly to APA 7th, MLA 9th, Chicago 17th, Vancouver, Harvard, and IEEE simultaneously. Useful for researchers submitting the same paper to multiple journals or switching between institutional style requirements.
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