citely.ai
Citely finds academic sources and checks references against research databases to flag fabricated, mismatched, or unverifiable citations.
Data snapshot: 2026-08 · Last synced: 2026-10-05 09:00 UTC
Overview
Monthly visitsⓘ
#19 of 64 in Productivity
MoM growthⓘ
prev. month 60.8K
Organic search trafficⓘ
Organic search %ⓘ
Registeredⓘ
Spaceship, Inc.
AI Take · analysed Oct 2026
- Who it helps
- Citely is for students, academics, librarians, editors, and research teams that need credible references.
- Before → now
- Researchers previously checked references manually across academic databases, while Citely searches and verifies them from pasted text.
- Compared to
- Compared with manual database searches and reference managers, Citely focuses on detecting fabricated or mismatched citations and finding original sources.
- Why it wins
- It checks references across CrossRef, PubMed, arXiv, OpenAlex, and Google Scholar while flagging fake, mismatched, and unverifiable entries.
- Willingness to pay
- medium The page targets serious researchers and research teams, but no pricing terms are shown.
Traffic
Monthly visits, last 12 months
| 2025-09 | 6990 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-10 | 13323 | |
| 2025-11 | 12646 | |
| 2025-12 | 13208 | |
| 2026-01 | 51950 | |
| 2026-02 | 44051 | |
| 2026-03 | 49669 | |
| 2026-04 | 37183 | |
| 2026-05 | 50139 | |
| 2026-06 | 53759 | |
| 2026-07 | 60839 | |
| 2026-08 | 62856 | 32798 |
Engagement
- Bounce rate
- 36.2%
- Pages / visit
- 2.0
- Avg. duration
- 39s
Rank
- Global
- #563,720
- In US
- #831,032
Traffic channels
- Organic search52.2%
- Referrals20.1%
- Direct18.1%
- Paid search4.7%
- Organic social3.2%
- Paid referrals0.9%
- Paid social0.8%
- AI assistants0.0%
Top countries
- United States10.5%
- Germany8.1%
- United Kingdom6.2%
- Vietnam5.1%
- India4.9%
Source: TabAPI traffic estimates, Aug 2026 (channel and country splits are shares of that month’s visits).
Search & Backlinks
Backlinks
Backlink data has not been fetched for this site yet.
On-page SEO
- Organic search %
- 52.2%
- Organic visits
- 32.8K
- Page language
- en
- hreflang tags
- 11
Top keywords
No keyword data for this site yet.
Revenue estimate
Payment providers
No payment provider detected on the homepage or pricing page.
Est. revenue / monthⓘ
Grade C · Aug 2026
Grade C rests on traffic alone, so this site is not listed on the revenue board.
AI Take · pricing model: unknown
Tech & Monetization
Tech stack
- Next.js
- Vercel
- Cloudflare
Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Monetization
- 2 paid plans
- Model: unknown
On-page SEO check
- Words
- 876
- Language
- en
- hreflang
- 11
- Internal links
- 38
- Outbound links
- 7
- Images (no alt)
- 16 (0)
Structured data: AggregateOffer, Answer, FAQPage, ImageObject, Organization, Question, SoftwareApplication, WebSite
Source: our crawl of the homepage and pricing page, 2026-10-03 07:00 UTC.
Notes & Competitors
Worth copying
- Use two task-focused entry points for finding sources and verifying references.
- Show specific database integrations near the core product claims.
- Create dedicated guides and pages for citation checking, reference checking, source finding, and model-specific citation issues.
Red flags
None detected.
Competitors
No competitors identified yet.
Evidence
- Registration date2025-08-26 · Spaceship, Inc. · RDAP record
- Traffic snapshotAug 2026 · TabAPI monthly traffic estimate · 12 months of history
- Cross-checksingle-source Aug 2026 · checked as a brand-led site · global rank vs Tranco rank (not in Tranco top 1M) · ratio 5.15 · DataForSEO ETV 669 (shown, not used: brand traffic is mostly direct)
- Payment fingerprintsNo payment fingerprint found.
- Accuracy thresholdsApproved · MIN_BASE 1,000 visits · cross-check band ×10
- AI analysisGenerated Oct 2026 by gpt-5.6-sol (prompt enrich-v1) from the site’s own pages and the data above.
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