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Not how many cited you —
who, independently, chose to.
A raw citation count doesn't distinguish a stranger's genuine reliance on your work from your own co-author citing you again, or a colleague at your own institution. Citation Lens classifies every citing work — self-citation, co-author, same institution, or independent — deterministically, from the same public record an officer could look up.
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What gets classified.
Every citing work, classified by independence.
Self-citation, co-authorship (checked against your own full works list), same institution, or genuinely independent — every citing work lands in exactly one bucket, not a single blended count.
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Deterministic — no model guessing who you are.
Independence is computed from OpenAlex's own author IDs and institution records — the same data an officer could look up — not inferred or estimated by a language model.
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A citation count doesn't say who's actually citing you.
A number can't tell independent from affiliated.
A citation from a stranger at another institution counts the same as one from your own co-author or your own department — a raw total can't tell them apart.
Self-citation quietly inflates the headline number.
Citing your own earlier work is normal and not wrong — but when it's not broken out separately, it can make a citation count look more like outside validation than it is.
Nothing else in the product breaks this down.
Citation Quick-Check reports the total. Citation Context Analyzer classifies how a passage engages with your work. Neither checks who the citer actually is.
Why a chatbot can't verify citation independence.
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Independence is a fact about author identity, institution records, and co-authorship history — not a judgment call a model should be making.
It has no systematic way to check co-authorship.
Determining whether a citing author has ever co-authored anything with you requires checking your actual works list — a chatbot has no such structured process, only a guess.
Identity classification should never be a guess.
Whether someone shares your institution or has co-authored with you is a fact, checkable against a public record — exactly the kind of thing this product does in code, not by asking a model to estimate.
Every citing work, one honest category.
How independence gets checked.
Your author profile is resolved.
The same OpenAlex lookup Citation Quick-Check uses — by name or ORCID iD — to establish your author identity and institution.
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Your own co-author history becomes the baseline.
Every author who has ever appeared on one of your own works is recorded, so a citing author's overlap with that list can be checked directly.
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Every citing work is classified.
Self-citation, co-author, same institution, or independent — checked in that order, most-disqualifying reason first.
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EVERY CITATION, CLASSIFIED
See who's actually citing you.
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