Smart citations — supported, or contradicted?
Not "was this cited" — "did later work agree with it."
scite.ai — shows whether a paper has been supported or contradicted by later citing work, not just how many times it was cited.
The specific D1·3 check (“has this paper been contradicted?”) — plus D1·4/D1·5, since literature-scout accepts a Scite result the same way it accepts a Semantic Scholar one, and D2·5, since a citation backed this way can end up in the manuscript.
scite.ai, ≈ €16/mo Premium — check whether UvA library access already covers it before buying seats.
Open each of your 3 Semantic Scholar results in Scite — has it been contradicted since publication? If a citation's been contradicted, the literature-scout rule says report both sides, not just the flattering one.
The shared dataset has a deliberate spurious-causality trap. Scite-style thinking (has this been challenged since?) is the literature-side mirror of identification-skeptic's confound-hunting on your own results.
This app's setup form has an optional Scite API key field — if set, literature results show support/contradiction inline (app/pipeline/literature.py).
literature-scout accepts a Scite result you've pasted into the chat as valid support for a citation — the same standing as a Semantic Scholar search result. Anything Scite surfaces can end up cited in the manuscript (D2·5), and gets cross-checked again by the referee skill's citation check (D1·4).
The hosted app's Scite integration is a best guess at their API shape, coded to fail silently rather than break the literature stage. Worth checking against Scite's actual docs before relying on it for anything beyond this course.
Semantic Scholar finds it, Scite tells you if it held up, Consensus/Elicit tell you what it's saying — three different questions about the same paper.
Doesn't verify a citation is real in the first place — that's still the Semantic-Scholar-or-nothing base rule.
The only paid-only tool in this stack with no meaningful free tier for real use — which is why the course proposal's “Recommended” cost tier includes it specifically, rather than leaving it optional-and-skippable like the rest.
Back to D1·3's decision graph on the home page.