# AI research citation review worksheet

Revision: 2026-09-04. One copy per atomic claim. Editorial aid, not certification or publication approval. Do not put confidential material in an unapproved system.

Report/version: ____ · Claim ID: ____ · Original sentence: ____ · Paragraph context: ____ · Reviewer: ____ · Review date: ____

## 1. Identify the work

Exact title: ____ · Authors/organization: ____ · Search routes attempted: ____ · DOI or stable source URL: ____ · Identity matched / unresolved: ____

## 2. Match bibliographic fields

Publisher/venue: ____ · Date: ____ · Volume/article identifier: ____ · Preprint or version of record: ____ · Differences and resolution: ____

## 3. Record access and location

Access level (full text / abstract only / unavailable): ____ · Authorized route: ____ · Relevant section/table/page: ____ · Necessary missing material and request owner: ____

## 4. Pair claim and evidence

Short exact passage: ____ · Surrounding qualifiers: ____ · Which part of the original claim it supports: ____ · Unsupported words: ____

## 5. Recalculate scope and numbers

Population/unit: ____ · Numerator: ____ · Denominator: ____ · Period/geography: ____ · Exclusions: ____ · Formula: ____ · Relative change or percentage points: ____

## 6. Check causal language

Design and comparison: ____ · Selection/task changes: ____ · Observed versus causal wording: ____ · Unjustified extrapolation: ____

## 7. Check quotes and translations

Original wording and locator: ____ · Negation/qualifier check: ____ · Quote or paraphrase: ____ · Translation language/status and reviewer: ____

## 8. Match source version to claim time

Claim's time reference: ____ · Source version/effective date: ____ · Earlier version retained at: ____ · Currentness decision: ____

## 9. Inspect notices

Publisher/status routes checked: ____ · Check date: ____ · Correction/retraction/concern notice: ____ · Affected claims: ____ · Unknowns: ____

No notice found is not a guarantee. Do not interpret an empty API update field as proof of no corrections.

## 10. Decide and recheck

Support (direct / partial / background / contradicted / unresolved): ____ · Reason: ____ · Action (keep / rewrite / remove / hold): ____ · Proposed wording: ____ · Revision rechecked by/date: ____ · Release decision and owner: ____ · Remaining task/deadline: ____ · Reopen trigger: ____

Keep the original judgment separate from the revised claim's judgment. Support is not source quality, and neither is publication permission.

## Report-level reconciliation

Original claims: ____ · Full relevant evidence available: ____ · Direct: ____ · Partial: ____ · Background: ____ · Contradicted: ____ · Unresolved: ____

Actions: keep ____ + rewrite ____ + remove ____ + hold ____ = original claims ____.

Access coverage = assessable claims / original claims. Original direct-support rate = directly supported original claims / stated original denominator. If reporting an assessable-only rate, name that denominator separately. Revised candidates must not be counted as originally correct.

For medical, legal, financial, or other consequential interpretation, record the qualified domain reviewer and decision separately; this worksheet does not supply that review.