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Scite Told Me the Study Everyone Quotes Was Never Replicated
Supported, contradicted, or just cited? The difference changes your argument.
I was about to cite a popular finding when Scite showed it had been contradicted more than supported.
It separates 'mentioned' from 'confirmed,' which most citation counts blur together.
I narrowed to well-indexed journals, because the long tail of preprint wasn't there.
The free tier capped how deep I could go, so I picked the three claims that mattered.
I cited the confirming paper, not the famous one. That's the whole value of the tool.