Hey Product Hunt 👋

I built CiteWise after a coworker came to me with a problem.

Part of his job is checking references — making sure the papers actually exist and that the authors, journal, year, DOI, and other details are accurate.

For a long time, his most reliable assistants were basically Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V 😂

Copy the DOI or title, search for it, open the paper, check the metadata, record the result... and repeat.

So he asked me, “Can you build something to make this less painful?”

I'm a software engineer, so I did what developers do: I wrote some code instead of telling him to do it manually. 😄

The first version was a small internal tool. He shared it with his coworkers, and they started using it too. Their feedback helped us find more edge cases and things that could be automated.

That's how CiteWise gradually grew into a real product.

CiteWise isn't just another citation formatter. Instead of simply changing how a citation looks, it helps verify whether your references are actually correct — checking DOIs, bibliographic metadata, mismatches, and verifying references in batches.

We're still improving it, and I'd love to hear from the Product Hunt community:

How do you currently verify your references?

What part of the process is still unnecessarily manual?

I'd especially love to hear from researchers, students, librarians, and anyone who works with large bibliographies. 🙌

Hey Product Hunt 👋

I built CiteWise after a coworker came to me with a problem.

Part of his job is checking references — making sure the papers actually exist and that the authors, journal, year, DOI, and other details are accurate.

For a long time, his most reliable assistants were basically Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V 😂

Copy the DOI or title, search for it, open the paper, check the metadata, record the result... and repeat.

So he asked me, “Can you build something to make this less painful?”

I'm a software engineer, so I did what developers do: I wrote some code instead of telling him to do it manually. 😄

The first version was a small internal tool. He shared it with his coworkers, and they started using it too. Their feedback helped us find more edge cases and things that could be automated.

That's how CiteWise gradually grew into a real product.

CiteWise isn't just another citation formatter. Instead of simply changing how a citation looks, it helps verify whether your references are actually correct — checking DOIs, bibliographic metadata, mismatches, and verifying references in batches.

We're still improving it, and I'd love to hear from the Product Hunt community:

How do you currently verify your references?

What part of the process is still unnecessarily manual?

I'd especially love to hear from researchers, students, librarians, and anyone who works with large bibliographies. 🙌

CiteWise

Verify academic references with evidence

Verify academic references with evidence