CiteTrue Citation Finder — AI Research Tool

What is CiteTrue Citation Finder?

CiteTrue Citation Finder is a web tool that finds real, peer-reviewed sources for the claims in your writing. You paste a sentence, a paragraph, a literature review, or a whole chapter. It splits the text into claims, searches arXiv, Crossref, OpenAlex, PubMed, and Google Scholar, and returns ranked papers for each claim with authors, year, venue, citation count, and a DOI or publisher link. It is built for students, researchers, and academic writers who know what they want to argue and need evidence to back it up. Citation Finder is one part of the CiteTrue suite, which also includes a Citation Checker, Paper Draft, and an AI Humanizer.

What sets CiteTrue Citation Finder apart?

Citation Finder starts from the sentence you already wrote, not from a search query you have to invent. It works out what would count as evidence for each claim and searches five databases at once, so a paper missing from one index can still turn up from another. It never generates a reference. Every result is a record it retrieved, and if nothing matches a claim, it says so. This helps most if you have asked a general chatbot for citations and received plausible papers with dead DOIs.

How does CiteTrue Citation Finder work?

You paste your text and pick a mode. Segment mode splits the passage into self-contained claims and searches each one separately, so a paragraph on three topics returns three result sets. Whole mode treats the passage as one topic. For each claim, the tool derives search terms, queries arXiv, Crossref, OpenAlex, PubMed, and Google Scholar in parallel, and ranks results by topical relevance, citation strength, and how directly each paper supports your sentence. You can then export the results to CSV, PDF, or BibTeX in eight citation styles.

Who should use CiteTrue Citation Finder?

Graduate students and PhD researchers can attach evidence to each claim in a thesis draft or literature review. Undergraduates can find sources for an essay sentence that a supervisor marked "needs a citation." Academic researchers can get into an unfamiliar field by pasting a working summary and reading the papers behind each strand. Writers who drafted with AI tools can replace a fabricated or unfindable reference with a real paper that makes the same point.

Is CiteTrue Citation Finder free?

Yes. Every CiteTrue account gets 30 free credits per day, and one Citation Finder search costs 5 credits, so the free plan covers about six searches a day. No card is needed to start. Paid plans cost $9.99 per month for 1,000 credits (Plus), $19.99 for 3,000 (Pro), and $79.99 for 20,000 (Max). Yearly billing lowers these to $5.99, $11.99, and $47.99 per month. Credits are shared across all CiteTrue tools, and paid plans add CSV and PDF export and suggested replacement citations.

Does CiteTrue Citation Finder work outside English?

The interface runs in 11 languages, and the tool accepts non-English text. Coverage in the underlying databases is strongest for English-language literature, so results for other languages can be thinner.

CiteTrue Citation Finder Use Cases

• Attaching sources to a first draft
• Answering "needs a citation" review comments
• Starting a literature review in a new field
• Replacing fabricated or unverifiable references
• Building a BibTeX reference list from a paragraph