arxivcs.AI2026-07-10
Evaluating and Guarding Citation Faithfulness in Agentic Scientific Synthesis
Taewan Goo, Junsik Kim, Kyulhee Han, GwonYul Jo, Jong-Soo Kim, Tae-Hyung Kim
Agentic LLM systems such as OpenScholar and PaperQA2 read the scientific literature and return cited answers, and both they and their benchmarks already check whether those citations hold, with a fixed attribution model or human graders. Neither audits the reliability of that che…