Citation Alert
Citation alerts for your seed papers or authors: each run lists new citing papers with abstract, venue, method, and exactly how they use the cited work.
Built for researchers who want more than Google Scholar alerts to track who builds on, challenges or reuses key papers and authors.
Why this work is hard
Researchers tracking who builds on, challenges or reuses key papers and authors spend hours on this by hand: finding the right sources, reading them, checking them against each other and writing up what matters. The work is repetitive, it is easy to miss something, and nobody can show where a claim came from.
Citation Alert does that work as a GREP AI agent. It runs weekly and delivers each edition without you asking. Every run delivers a formatted brief, with every claim linked to its source.
What you get
What Citation Alert delivers
FAQ
What does Citation Alert need to run?
Citation Alert needs seed papers or authors (one per line); focus question (optional) and fields or venues to prioritize (optional) are optional.
How often does Citation Alert run?
It runs weekly and delivers each edition without you asking.
What does Citation Alert deliver?
Every run delivers a formatted brief, with every claim linked to its source.
Can I change what Citation Alert does?
Yes. Every GREP AI agent can be cloned into your workspace, where you can edit its instructions, add your own sources and files, and change its schedule.
How is this different from Google Scholar alerts?
Google Scholar "cited by" lists are one of its sources. Citation Alert also reads the citing passage and classifies each use as extends, applies, compares against, critiques or replicates, and it never infers the use from a title alone.
Which sources does it search?
Semantic Scholar's citation graph and contexts, OpenAlex, Google Scholar, arXiv, bioRxiv and medRxiv, Crossref, publisher pages and OpenReview, plus field indexes such as PubMed or DBLP when the seeds call for them.
Does it flag preprints and retractions?
Yes. Every preprint is labeled not peer-reviewed, and the digest reports retractions, errata and corrections that affect a seed or a listed citing paper. Self-citations are excluded unless they add a new result.
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