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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It can't hand you back a real proportion.
"Mostly independent" isn't an answer without a denominator. Citation Lens returns a real count out of a real total citing-works set, not a vibe.
Every citing work, one honest category.
How independence gets checked.
Your author profile is resolved.
Search by name or ORCID iD; your most-cited paper and up to 50 works that cite it are read from OpenAlex.
Every citing work is sorted.
Self-citation, co-author, same institution or independent, checked in that order against your own co-authors and institution.
See the independent share.
How many of the citations come from independent researchers, with the count behind the percentage.
The breakdown is ready to share.
A count per group and an OpenAlex link for every citing work, a snapshot link and a one-page PDF.
EVERY CITATION, CLASSIFIED
Independence,
checked, not assumed.
Every citing author resolves to a real identity, then gets classified against your own co-author and institution baseline. What's left after exclusion is the number that actually means something.
See who's actually citing you.
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