CITETRACE dataset and evaluation framework show 30.6% of citations distort sources and 27.1% use domain-inappropriate sources in search-augmented LLMs, with provider differences explaining 88-96% of quality variance.
An automated framework for assessing how well LLMs cite relevant medical references.Nature Communications, 16(1):3615, 2025
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CITETRACE dataset and evaluation framework show 30.6% of citations distort sources and 27.1% use domain-inappropriate sources in search-augmented LLMs, with provider differences explaining 88-96% of quality variance.
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