How to Use Scite Smart Citations

Explains how to read Scite's smart citations (supporting, contrasting, mentioning), build a citation dashboard by importing from Zotero or pasting DOIs, and use Reference Check to flag retracted or problematic sources in a manuscript. It also warns against over-trusting a single numeric confidence score.

Task

Research & literature

Time

20 min

Level

intermediate

Cost

Needs a licence — Requires a licence your institution may or may not hold.

Tools

Scite

Published

2025