Phantocite

Upload a student paper. References are checked against OpenAlex; each citing sentence is compared with the source's abstract by an LLM.

Handles typical student papers — up to about 25 pages with around 30 references. Longer documents are checked as far as the time budget allows and marked as partial.
What data leaves your machine?
  • OpenAlex receives only reference titles and DOIs — never the paper's prose, the student's name, or any body text.
  • The configured LLM provider () receives the document text (needed to locate the reference list and citing sentences) and, for the misquote check, the citation snippets plus OpenAlex abstracts — nothing more. Requests run under the site owner's API key.
  • All three providers state that data sent via an API key is not used to train their models by default.
  • Cookies. After you accept cookies, Google Analytics (gtag.js) sets cookies to measure how the site is used — page views, runs, model choice — never your document, references, keys or results.
  • The CSV, Markdown and HTML downloads are written in your browser and never leave it. The PDF download posts the finished results table back to this server to be typeset, and the file is streamed straight back to you.
  • This tool stores nothing: no database, no file writes, no logs of your document or keys.

Using eduGenAI 2? That integration is on hold until the domain is whitelisted. This instance runs on the site owner's API key. The tool checks abstracts only and may produce false positives or negatives — verify results manually, and confirm that your institution's privacy policy permits this use. See the terms of use.