Sciwrite-Lint: Verification Infrastructure for the Age of Science Vibe-Writing

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The paper presents sciwrite-lint, an open-source tool for verifying the integrity of scientific manuscripts, including checking references, retraction status, and citation support.
It critiques traditional peer review and open science as flawed or lacking in quality assurance, especially with AI-generated content, proposing a third option based on measuring the paper itself.
The tool runs locally on a researcher’s machine using public databases and open-weights models without sending data externally, with evaluation conducted on 30 papers from arXiv and bioRxiv.
An experimental extension, SciLint Score, adds a contribution component based on philosophical frameworks, though only the integrity component is evaluated in this paper.

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