Verify a citation: does it exist, is it retracted, and do the given title/authors/year/jou
Verify a citation: does it exist, is it retracted, and do the given title/authors/year/journal match the canonical record? Checked against Crossref (retraction data included) with OpenAlex as a fallback when no DOI is given.
5000 (raw units)
price
6
calls / 30d
1
unique payers
2026-09-04
updated
Provider
goodsong.dev · discovered, not yet claimed by its owner
Payment (x402 accepts[])
[
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:8453",
"payTo": "0xf3b36a95913eb2676fcdedb2ba6b0c96ade58de1",
"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"amount": "5000",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
}
]Output schema
{
"bazaar": {
"info": {
"input": {
"body": {
"doi": "10.1126/science.1260419",
"title": "Tissue-based map of the human proteome"
},
"bodyType": "json",
"method": "POST",
"type": "http"
},
"output": {
"example": {
"canonical": {
"authors": [
"Mathias Uhlén",
"Linn Fagerberg"
],
"doi": "10.1126/science.1260419",
"journal": "Science",
"title": "Tissue-based map of the human proteome",
"year": 2015,
"year_candidates": [
2015
]
},
"checks": {
"authors_match": true,
"exists": true,
"journal_match": null,
"retracted": false,
"title_match": true,
"year_match": true
},
"cost": {
"amount": "0.005",
"currency": "USDC"
},
"evidence": [
{
"retrieved_at": "2026-08-30T12:00:00Z",
"source": "crossref",
"url": "https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1126/science.1260419"
}
],
"latency_ms": 312,
"verdict": "confirmed"
},
"type": "json"
}
},
"schema": {
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"body": {
"description": "Provide a DOI and/or a title; other fields are checked against the canonical record when given.",
"properties": {
"authors": {
"description": "Author names, as e.g. ['Jane Doe', 'John Smith'].",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"type": "array"
},
"doi": {
"description": "The citation's DOI, if known.",
"type": "string"
},
"journal": {
"description": "Journal or venue name.",
"type": "string"
},
"title": {
"description": "The work's title.",
"type": "string"
},
"year": {
"description": "Publication year.",
"type": "integer"
}
}
},
"bodyType": {
"enum": [
"json",
"form-data",
"text"
],
"type": "string"
},
"method": {
"enum": [
"POST",
"PUT",
"PATCH"
],
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method",
"bodyType",
"body"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"properties": {
"canonical": {
"type": [
"object",
"null"
]
},
"checks": {
"type": "object"
},
"cost": {
"type": "object"
},
"evidence": {
"type": "array"
},
"latency_ms": {
"type": "integer"
},
"verdict": {
"enum": [
"confirmed",
"contradicted",
"unknown"
],
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}
}
}Use it
curl
curl "https://goodsong.dev/verify/citation" # -> 402 Payment Required, accepts[] lists how to pay # retry with a PAYMENT-SIGNATURE (or PAYMENT header) once paid
JavaScript
const res = await fetch("https://goodsong.dev/verify/citation");
if (res.status === 402) {
const { accepts } = await res.json();
// pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment header
}Python
import httpx
res = httpx.get("https://goodsong.dev/verify/citation")
if res.status_code == 402:
accepts = res.json()["accepts"]
# pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment headerMachine-readable
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