Tag
Chaff
Every CitationLab post tagged chaff. A small collection for now; it grows as the topic recurs.
AI & Integrity
What is citation chaff, and why is it on my screen?
Table captions, figure cross-references and addresses appear alongside your citations on purpose. What chaff is, why collecting it is the safer error, and what to do with the screen.
Inside CitationLab
Why we never tighten extraction
The most common request we decline: make the extractor stricter. Why a missed citation is unrecoverable, why a false one is merely annoying, and the one tightening we did accept.